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Gerhard Richter’s stained glass window, Cologne Cathedral, 2007

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Gerhard Richter - Madrid Townscape
oil on canvas - 1968

Gerhard Richter - Lesende (Reader)
oil on canvas - 1994

Gerhard Richter - Atlas 444. Apples and Bottle
1988

Gerhard Richter - Atlas: 202. Seascapes
1972

Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (CR: 779-3)
oil on canvas - 1992
200 x 140 cm (78.74 x 55.11 in)

Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (CR: 710)
oil on canvas - 1989
260 x 200 cm (102.36 x 78.74 in)

Gerhard Richter - Garmisch
oil on canvas - 1981

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Gerhard Richter - Schadel (Skull)
oil on canvas - 1983

Gerhard Richter - Woman Descending the Staircase
oil on canvas - 1965

Gerhard Richter - Atlas: 397-398. Candles
1983; 1982

Gerhard Richter - Atlas 18. Photographs from Books
1967

Richter has stated that the use of photographic imagery as a starting point for his early paintings resulted from an attempt to escape the complicated process of deciding what to paint, along with the critical and theoretical implications accompanying such decisions within the context of a modernist discourse. To achieve this, Richter began amassing photos from magazines, books, etc., many of which became the subject matter of his early photography-based paintings. Thus the Atlas was born: Atlas is an ongoing, encyclopedic work composed of approximately 4,000 photographs, reproductions or cut-out details of photographs and illustrations, grouped together on approximately 600 separate panels.

Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (CR 725-4)
oil on canvas - 1990
225 x 200 cm (88.58 x 78.74 in)

Gerhard Richter - Abstraktes Bild (CR: 743-2)
oil on canvas - 1991
200.5 x 140 cm (78.9 x 55.9 in)