Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist. Born in 1932, he 1947 he attended
night classes to study art, and worked as a sign writer in 1949. In 1950 he
decides to become a professional artist and in 1956 he had enough
commissions to be financially independent. He mainly painted murals, and
was impressed by the painters
Jackson Pollock
and Lucio Fontana.
In 1962 he made his first photo paintings. Richter first began exhibiting in Düsseldorf in 1963. In 1966 he paints his first colour charts.
Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.
In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at £21m ($34m).[4] This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral square, Milan) was sold for $37.1 million (£24.4 million) in New York.[5]
His journey was not an easy one but at the age of 82 he is still enjoying and producing art.
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