GERHARD RICHTER. PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS

Gerhard Richter created a group of thirty abstract paintings and a series of forty drawings between December 2014 and May 2015. It w as a new beginning for himhe had not painted for four years until the Birkenau cycle in the summer of 2014. In his essay Starting again. New abstract pictures by Gerhard Richter, Dieter Schwarz traces the historical and aesthetic reference system of Richters a bstract paintings, while Benjamin H.D. Buchloh arranges Richters drawings within the larger context of the position of the genre in the history o...[Read more]