Profiles twentieth-century artist Gerhard Richter, exploring his childhood in Nazi Germany, his years as a student and mural painter in communist East Germany, and his rise to prominence in the 1980s; and includes reproductions and analysis of his works.
Content Note
Dresden -- Capitalist realism -- Dramatic personae -- Transformation -- Uncle Rudi -- Stylistic rupture as stylistic principle -- Venice biennale -- Gray -- Juno and Janus -- Sublime landscape, exceptional disaster -- Hahnwald -- First look.