Gerhard Richter

Gerhard Richter (1932) is a German painter and photographer, pioneer of the New European Painting movement, and one of the most important living visual artists, widely known for his abstract and photorealistic works, combinations of paintings and photographs. He began his career and immediately drew attention with paintings consisting of enlarged copies of black-and-white photographs painted with only a range of grey color. Throughout his career Richter continued this, highly prolific and stylistically varied exploration of the mediums of painting and photography, as he moved freely between figuration and abstraction. Richter is also credited with the innovation of a blurred effect in which portions of his compositions appear smeared or softened.

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