Helga Matura with Fiancé, 1966

LithographerGerhard Richter, Waltersdorf *1932

Oil on canvas

(H x W)200 × 100 cm

Status

on display, room 030

About the workWith his “photographic” paintings from the 1960s, Gerhard Richter introduced a new narrative form into painting that plays with the contradictions between a coded meaning and its simultaneous irrelevance. He altered the photographic model by moving a brush over the wet image, thereby blurring the depiction. The result is a distance between the image and the viewers that leaves the original motif interesting and unimportant at the same time. Richter came to the Düsseldorf Art Academy from Dresden in 1961 and studied there under the abstract painter K.O. Götz.

AccessionAcquisition 1973

ProvenanceAcquisition at Galerie Zwirner, Cologne 1973

Inventory number0.1973.305

Pop art
Portraits

Contact

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