Red-Blue-Yellow, 1972
ArtistGerhard Richter,
Waltersdorf
*1932
Oil on canvas
(H x W)300 × 250 cm
Status
not on displayAccessionPermanent loan of the Friends of the Kunstpalast
Inventory number0.1982.8
Contact
sammlung@kunstpalast.de
About the workRed, yellow and blue – all other shades can be mixed from these primary colours. Together with white, they form the starting point for this image by Gerhard Richter. With a broad brush, the artist, who taught at the Düsseldorf Art Academy from 1971, painted the four colours in seemingly never-ending strokes to produce an impenetrable structure. Although a kind of pictorial space can be glimpsed among these paths of colour, no concrete subject emerges from this mesh of lines. Rather, the actual theme of the picture is the painting process itself, which appears to continue indefinitely.