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Gerhard Richter: Atlas

Issue 1989
Category Solo Exhibitions
Author Zweite, Armin
Date 1989
Publisher Verlag Fred Jahn, München
Details Softcover, 236 pages
Language German

The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Atlas was published on the occasion of the exhibition Gerhard Richter. Atlas der Fotos, Collagen und Skizzen in Städtische Galerie in the Lenbachhaus, München.

 

The book displays nearly 500 plates of Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches, which the artist compiled and then arranged on single sheets beginning in the mid 1960s. The plates, which often contain templates for his paintings, reflect different stages of Richter’s life and work.

 

Text contribution by Armin Zweite.

The following artworks are mentioned, discussed or illustrated in the book:

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Skizzen Blatt
Sketch Sheet 1967 Catalogue Raisonné: 67/8
Skizzen Blatt
Sketch Sheet 1967 Catalogue Raisonné: 67/9
Fenster
Window 1968 Catalogue Raisonné: 204
Fenstergitter
Window Grid 1968 Catalogue Raisonné: 207
Balken
Beams 1968 Catalogue Raisonné: 208-2
Landschaft mit Baumgruppe
Landscape with Clump of Trees 1970 Catalogue Raisonné: 258
Wolken (Fenster)
Clouds (Window) 1970 Catalogue Raisonné: 266
Wolken (rosa)
Clouds (Pink) 1970 Catalogue Raisonné: 267
Schlafende (Barbara N.)
Sleeper (Barbara N.) 1970 Catalogue Raisonné: 281
Parkstück
Park Piece 1971 Catalogue Raisonné: 311
48 Portraits (Rudolf Borchardt)
48 Portraits (Rudolf Borchardt) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-41
48 Portraits (Alfred Mombert)
48 Portraits (Alfred Mombert) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-1
48 Portraits (Thomas Mann)
48 Portraits (Thomas Mann) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-2
48 Portraits (Manuel de Falla)
48 Portraits (Manuel de Falla) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-3
48 Portraits (James Franck)
48 Portraits (James Franck) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-4
48 Portraits (Max Planck)
48 Portraits (Max Planck) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-5
48 Portraits (Herbert George Wells)
48 Portraits (Herbert George Wells) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-6
48 Portraits (Gustav Mahler)
48 Portraits (Gustav Mahler) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-7
48 Portraits (Arrigo Boito)
48 Portraits (Arrigo Boito) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-8
48 Portraits (Alfredo Casella)
48 Portraits (Alfredo Casella) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-9
48 Portraits (José Ortega y Gasset)
48 Portraits (José Ortega y Gasset) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-10
48 Portraits (Mihail Sadoveanu)
48 Portraits (Mihail Sadoveanu) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-11
48 Portraits (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
48 Portraits (Peter Tschaikowsky) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-12
48 Portraits (Otto Schmeil)
48 Portraits (Otto Schmeil) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-13
48 Portraits (James Chadwick)
48 Portraits (James Chadwick) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-14
48 Portraits (Frederic Joliot)
48 Portraits (Frederic Joliot) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-15
48 Portraits (Hans Pfitzner)
48 Portraits (Hans Pfitzner) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-16
48 Portraits (Igor Stravinsky)
48 Portraits (Igor Strawinsky) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-17
48 Portraits (Jean Sibelius)
48 Portraits (Jean Sibelius) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-18
48 Portraits (Paul Valéry)
48 Portraits (Paul Valéry) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-19
48 Portraits (William James)
48 Portraits (William James) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-20
48 Portraits (Nicolai Hartmann)
48 Portraits (Nicolai Hartmann) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-21
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the following exhibition:

Gerhard Richter: Atlas der Fotos, Collagen und Skizzen Gerhard Richter: Atlas of Photographs, Collages and Sketches Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 02 August 1989 - 22 October 1989
Gerhard Richter: Atlas der Fotos, Collagen und Skizzen Gerhard Richter: Atlas of Photographs, Collages and Sketches Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany 13 February 1990 - 16 April 1990

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Exhibitions Gerhard Richter: Atlas Dietmar Elger, Helmut Friedel Kunsthalle im Lipsiusbau, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany, 2012