Gerhard Richter

Dresden, Germany, 1932 -

BiographyEducation: Kunstakademie, Dresden, Germany, 1951-1956
Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany, 1961-1963

Awards: Praemium Imperiale, Japan, 1997
Wolf Prize, Wolf Foundation, Israel, 1994/5
Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna, Austria, 1985
Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, Germany, 1981
Junger Western Art Prize, Recklinghausen, Germany 1967

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2003
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMoMA), San Francisco, October 12, 2002- January 14, 2003,
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, February 20 - May 18, 2003

2002
“Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting”, Museum of Modern Art New York, New York; Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
“Acht Grau,” Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, February 13- May 21, 2002,
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, June 22- September 15, 2002

2001
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

2000
Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Stuttgart, Germany
"Gerhard Richter: Works on Paper from the Collection of Museum Overholland and The Museum of Modern Art," Kabinet Overholland in het Stedelijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Gerhard Richter," Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Gerhard Richter, Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, neue Bilder," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

2000-99
"Gerhard Richter, Aquarelle und Zeichnungen 1964-1999," Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

1999
"Gerhard Richter. The Art of the Impossible - Paintings 1964 -1998," Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
"Gerhard Richter: Atlas," Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain

1998
"Gerhard Richter. Der Atlas und seine Bilder," Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"Gerhard Richter 128 Fotos von einem Bild (Halifax 1978)," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
"Landschaften," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

1996
"Gerhard Richter: 100 Bilder," Carré d'Art Museé de Nîmes, Nîmes, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1995
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
"Atlas," The Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York

1994
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sof’a, Madrid, Spain

1993
ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1991
"Gerhard Richter," Tate Gallery, London, England
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1990
"Atlas," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
"New Paintings," Marian Goodman Gallery/Sperone Westwater, New York, New York
"18. Oktober 1977," St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, New York; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Quebec; Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California

1989
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
"Atlas Der Fotos, Collagen and Skizzen," Stadische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"18. Oktober 1977," Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany; Institute for Contemporary Art, London, England
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Goethe House-German Cultural Center, New York, New York
"Horizons," The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

1989-88
"Paintings," Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

1987
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1986
Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf Nationalgalerie, Bern, Switzerland
Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

1985
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York

1984
Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Industrie, St. Etienne, France

1982
Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany

1981
Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany

1980
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1978
Stedelijk van Abbemusum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1977
Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

1976
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany

1975
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Germany
Kunstverein, Braunschweig, Germany

1974
Stadtisches Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany

1973
Seriaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Kunstverein, Bremerhaven, Germany
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

1972
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands

1971
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany
Kunstverein, Düsseldorf, Germany

1970
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1963
Mobelhaus Berges, Düsseldorf, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2003
-Dia: Beacon, Beacon, New York, permanent installation
-BERLIN-MOSKAU, MOSKAU-BERLIN 1950-2000, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin,
Germany

2002
“Realitetsfantasier,” Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
"Raum fur Malerei, The Painting Room," Kaiser Wilhelm Museum Krefeld, Krefeld, Germany

2001
"As Painting: Division and Displacement," Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

2000
"Aspectos de la Collección," Fundació La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
"Orbis Terrarum Ways of Worldmaking," Antwerpen Open, Antwerp, Belgium
"Das Gedachtnis der Kunst: Geschichte und Errinerung in der Kunst der Gegenwart," Historisches Museum in collaboration with Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

2000-99
"Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

1999
"Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-99," The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts

1998
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Alpenblick. Die zeitgenössische Kunst und das Alpine," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
"Veronica's Revenge" (Oeuvres photographiques de la Lambert Art Collection), Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1997
47th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1996
"Abstraction in the Twentieth Century," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

1995
"Degrees of Abstraction," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
"Desire, Disaster, Document," San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
"Still Life," National Museum Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
"The Romantic Spirit in German Art," Munich, Germany
"Ars Helsinki," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
"Singular Objects," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto National Museum, Kyoto, Japan
"Auf Papier - Kunst des 20. Jhd. aus der Deutschen Bank," Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main; Berlinische Galerie, Berlin, Germany; Museum der bildenden Kuenste, Leipzig, Germany
"Junge Deutsche Kunst der 90er Jahre aus-NRW-Die Generation nach Becher, Beuys, Polke, Richter, Ruthenbeck," Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyongju, Korea
"Künstler-Räume," Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Kunst in Deutschland-Werke zeitgenossischer Kunst aus der Sammlung des Bundes," Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle, Bonn, Germany
"Praxis," Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre d'Art Contemporain, Bignan, France
"Blumenstilleben," Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
"Color and Paint," Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
"Still Life-Stilleben-Nature Morte," Städtische Galerie Helmhaus, Zurich, Switzerland

1994
Domaine Kerguehennec, Centre d'Art, Locminé Bignan, France

1993
"A Group Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"The Broken Mirror," Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Shapes and Positions," Museum Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany

1993-92
"Photography in Contemporary German Art: 1960 To the Present," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Dallas Art Museum, Dallas, Texas; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas; St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri; Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, New York

1992
"Pop Art," Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
"U-Bahn-Kunst in Duisberg," Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisberg, Duisberg, Germany
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
"Oh Cet Echo," Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
"Das offene Bild," Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany
"Adam and Eve," Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
"Repetición/Transformación," El Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany

1991
"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Not Painting," S. Bitter-Larkin, New York, New York

1989
"Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
"Bilderstreit," Messelhallen, Cologne, Germany
"Art from Koln," Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
"German Paintings," P.S. Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"The German Image in Painting 1960-1988," Toledo Museum, Toledo, Ohio; Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York; Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany; Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
"50 Years of Collecting Art at I.B.M.," The I.B.M. Gallery of Science and Art, New York, New York
International Art in the Fundació Caixa de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain
"Group Show," Thomas Segal Gallery, New York, New York

1988
"As Far as the Eye can See," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Rot-Gelb-Blau," Kunstmuseum, St.Gallen, Switzerland; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
"La Couleur seule, l'Experience du Monochrome," Musée St. Pierre, Lyons, France
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"Europa oggi/Europe Now," Museo d'Arte Contemporaneo, Prato, Italy

1987
" Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"Wechselstrome," Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
"L'Epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion," Musée National d'Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Brennpunkt Dusseldorf-Joseph Beuys-DieAkademie-Der Allgemeine Aufbruch," Kunstmuseum, Düsseldorf, Germany
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
"Watercolours by Bueys, Palermo, Polke, Richter," Goethe Institute, London, England
"Regen Boog," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

1986
Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporaine, Bourgogne, France
"Positionen," Neue Berliner Galerie im Alten Museum, Berlin, Germany
"Hommage à Beuys," Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
"Mater Dulcissima," Chiesa dei Cavalieri de Maita, Syracuse, Italy
"Philadelphia Collects Art since 1940," Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
"Boston Collects," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

1985
La Nouvelle Biennale, Paris, France
"Dinge des Menschen," Kunsthalle Recklinghausen, Recklinghausen, Germany
"The European Iceberg," The Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
"Rheingold," Palazzo della Societa Promotrice delle Belle Arti, Turin, Italy
"Wasserfarbenblatter," Wertfalischer Kunstverein, Münster
"Deutsche Kunst seit 1960," Staatgalerie Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany
"Museum? Museum! Museum. Kunst von heute aus Hamburger Privatsammlungen," Museum für 40 Tage, Hamburg, Germany
Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
"30 Jahre durch die Kunst in der Bundesrepublik Deutschland," Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
"Modus Vivendi. 11 deutsche Maler," Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany; Landmusuem Augusteum, Oldenburg, Germany
"German Art in the 20th Century," Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

1984
"Aquarelle," Kassler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
"Nackt in der Kunst," Sprengel Museum, Hannover
"Sorgfalt' 84," Forum, Rottweil, Germany
"Vier Perioden deutscher Malerei," Stadtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
"Ein anderes Klima," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Aufbruche," Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
"Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
"Toyama Now '84," Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
"Terrae Motus," Fondazione Amelio, Instituto per l'Arte Contemporanea, Naples, Italy
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Art in the Mirror," Giardini, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Von hier aus," Messegeland, Hall 13, Düsseldorf, Germany
Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

1983
"Artists from Sperone Westwater Fischer, Inc.," SVC/Fine Arts Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida
"Drawings," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Acquisition Priorities: Aspects of Postwar Painting in Europe," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

1982
"Sammlung CREX," Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
"Sammlung ulbricht," Stadtische Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany
"60'80 attitudes/concepts/images," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany

1981
"A New Spirit in Painting," Royal Academy of Arts, London, England
"West Kunst," Messehallen, Cologne, Germany
"Art d'Allemagne aujourd'hui," ARC/Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1980
40th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Forms of Realism Today," Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
"Der gekrummte Horizont. Kunst in Berlin 1945-1967," Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
"ARS BALTICA," Gotlands Fornsal, Visby, Sweden

1979
HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

1978
"Beuys, Broodthaers, Buren, Kounellis, Merz, Richter," InK. Halle für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland

1977
"Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

1975
"Fundamental Painting," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1974
"Project: Aspects of International Art of the early Seventies," Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany

1973
Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Contemporanea," Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Prospect '73, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1972
36th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy

1971
"3 --: New Multiple Art," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
"Art of the Twentieth Century," Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"Imagine per la citta," Academia Ligustica de Belle Arti, Genoa, Italy

1970
"Painting from Photography," Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
"Strategy: Get Arts," Edinburgh International Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

1969
"The Ludwig Collection," Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
"Opening Exhibition," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
"9 Young Artists," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
"The Düsseldorf Scene," Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

1968
Kunsthalle, Darmstadt, Germany
"The 5th Exhibition," Museum of Contemporary Art, Nagasaki, Japan

1967
Paris Biennial, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
"Extra," Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
"Young Generation," Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany
Deutschler Kunstlerbund, Essen, Germany

1965
"14 Aspects of Modern Painting," Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Museum Apeldoorn, Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
"Tendencies," Stadtisches Museum Trier, Trier, Germany
"Contemporary Art," Museum Wuppertal, Wuppertal, Germany

1964
Deutscher Kunstlerbund, Berlin, Germany

1963
Rented storefront exhibition with Lueg and Polke, Düsseldorf, Germany

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