Gerhard richter biography summary of winston churchill
Gerhard Richter is a renowned German artist known for his contemporary paintings.!
Towards the end of his studies at the Düsseldorf Academy, Richter had laid the foundations for his practice, setting up an interchange between photography and painting that was to be equally important for him as for later art-historical accounts of the Post-War period.
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Just before the end of term in , Munich-based gallerist Heiner Friedrich invited Richter to feature in an exhibition alongside Peter Klasen. This proved to be a fruitful relationship over the next eight years, involving several exhibitions that increased Richter’s visibility outside Düsseldorf.
Alfred Schmela and René Block were other important gallerists that supported Richter early on: in September , Schmela gave Richter his first solo exhibition and Block featured Richter's work in a show titled Neo-Dada, Pop, Décollage, Capitalist Realism.
Richter was dissatisfied with the 'capitalist realism' label that followed him from his student exhibitions but had established a good relationsh