Gerhard Richter

19.2.92 made in 1992 oil on photograph

Liebespaar im Walk Lovers in the Forest 1966 oil on canvas

German artist Gerhard Richter: "Unlike American artists Richter wasn't interested in the purity of art. Idealism had disillusioned him from an early age. Instead he painted images without glory; images that rendered the ridiculous, ordinary; the tragic, ordinary; the beautiful, ordinary. Throughout his career Richter has shrunk from giving a psychological insight into his art, leaving his admirers and critics guessing and at times confused. According to him, his work forms from structures and ideas that surround him, nothing more profound than that." His website is located at http://www.gerhard-richter.com/.