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Gerhard Richter. October 18, 1977

Category Solo Exhibitions
Author Storr, Robert
Date 2000
Publisher The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Details Hardback, 151 pages
ISBN 0870700235
Language English

On October 18, 1977, three young German radicals, members of the militant Baader-Meinhof group, were found dead in a Stuttgart prison; they were pronounced suicides, but many people suspected they had been murdered. Gerhard Richter, a German painter, and one of the most exceptional and highly regarded artists of the second half of the 20th century, created, 11 years after this traumatic event, a series of 15 paintings known as October 18, 1977. It is among the most challenging works of the artist's career, and one of the 20th century's most famous works on a political theme, still highly debated and unsettling to this day.

 

Accompanied by an extensive and sensitive group of texts by Robert Storr, who recently curated the Richter retrospective at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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

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48 Portraits (Mihail Sadoveanu)
48 Portraits (Mihail Sadoveanu) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-11
48 Portraits (José Ortega y Gasset)
48 Portraits (José Ortega y Gasset) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-10
48 Portraits (Otto Schmeil)
48 Portraits (Otto Schmeil) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-13
48 Portraits (Gustav Mahler)
48 Portraits (Gustav Mahler) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-7
48 Portraits (William James)
48 Portraits (William James) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-20
48 Portraits (Arrigo Boito)
48 Portraits (Arrigo Boito) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-8
48 Portraits (Jean Sibelius)
48 Portraits (Jean Sibelius) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-18
48 Portraits (Igor Stravinsky)
48 Portraits (Igor Strawinsky) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-17
48 Portraits (Hans Pfitzner)
48 Portraits (Hans Pfitzner) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-16
48 Portraits (Pyotr Tchaikovsky)
48 Portraits (Peter Tschaikowsky) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-12
48 Portraits (Frederic Joliot)
48 Portraits (Frederic Joliot) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-15
48 Portraits (Herbert George Wells)
48 Portraits (Herbert George Wells) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-6
48 Portraits (James Chadwick)
48 Portraits (James Chadwick) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-14
48 Portraits (Alfredo Casella)
48 Portraits (Alfredo Casella) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-9
48 Portraits (Max Planck)
48 Portraits (Max Planck) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-5
48 Portraits (Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac)
48 Portraits (Paul Adrien Maurice Dirac) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-22
48 Portraits (James Franck)
48 Portraits (James Franck) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-4
48 Portraits (Paul Claudel)
48 Portraits (Paul Claudel) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-24
48 Portraits (Manuel de Falla)
48 Portraits (Manuel de Falla) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-3
48 Portraits (Nicolai Hartmann)
48 Portraits (Nicolai Hartmann) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-21
48 Portraits (Paul Valéry)
48 Portraits (Paul Valéry) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-19
48 Portraits (Thomas Mann)
48 Portraits (Thomas Mann) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-2
48 Portraits (Enrico Fermi)
48 Portraits (Enrico Fermi) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-23
48 Portraits (John Dos Passos)
48 Portraits (John Dos Passos) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-48
48 Portraits (Alfred Mombert)
48 Portraits (Alfred Mombert) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-1
48 Portraits (Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett)
48 Portraits (Patrick Maynard Stuart Blackett) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-47
48 Portraits (Björnstjerne Björnson)
48 Portraits (Björnstjerne Björnson) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-36
48 Portraits (Franz Kafka)
48 Portraits (Franz Kafka) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-26
48 Portraits (Giacomo Puccini)
48 Portraits (Giacomo Puccini) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-33
48 Portraits (Louis Victor de Broglie)
48 Portraits (Louis Victor de Broglie) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-27
48 Portraits (Saint-John Perse)
48 Portraits (Saint-John Perse) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-28
48 Portraits (Graham Greene)
48 Portraits (Graham Greene) 1971/72 Catalogue Raisonné: 324-39
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This catalogue was published on the occasion of the following exhibition:

Gerhard Richter. 18. Oktober 1977 Gerhard Richter: October 18, 1977 The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, USA 28 September 2000 - 30 January 2001