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1932: 9 February: Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden to Hildegard Richter, a bookseller, and Horst Richter, a school teacher.
1933: 30 January: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor.
1936: the Richter family moves to Reichenau, a town close to Dresden, today known as Bogatynia in Poland. Richter's sister Gisela is born.
1939: 1 September: the German invasion of Poland begins; Horst is drafted in to the military and sent to the Eastern Front.
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The Atlas belongs to the Lenbachhaus in Munich – it's long since ceased to belong to me. Occasionally I run across it somewhere, and I think it's interesting because it looks different each time.
Among the watercolours there are scarcely any representational ones painted from photographs or other models.
Because it is more exciting with the abstract ones, and it goes faster. It has an effect similar to my earlier enthusiasm for developing photos in the darkroom. Something is created there all by itself, which one only has to observe in order to intervene at the right moment – in that case, to stop it. Here, then, it's more a question of being able to decide than of actually making something.
And what is it that connects Vermeer, Palladio, Bach, Cage?
It's that same quality I've been talking about. It's neither contrived, nor surprising and smart, not baffling, not witty, not interesting, not cynical, it can't be planned and it probably can't even be described. It's just good.
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Artwork | Auction House | Estimate | Sold For | Date | ||||||
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Abstraktes Bild 52 cm x 62 cm Oil on canvas |
Grisebach Berlin, Germany |
EUR 180,000 – 240,000 USD 256,000 – 342,000 | GBP 280,600 USD 399,075 |
27 May 2011 | |||||
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8.2.92 10.1 cm x 15.2 cm Lacquer on colour photograph |
Grisebach Berlin, Germany |
EUR 12,000 – 15,000 USD 16,000 – 20,000 | GBP 17,080 USD 22,773 |
25 November 2011 | |||||
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10.2.88 30 cm x 42 cm Oil on paper |
Grisebach Berlin, Germany |
EUR 50,000 – 70,000 USD 66,800 – 93,500 | GBP 84,180 USD 112,464 |
25 November 2011 |