Gerhard Richter: vita e opere in 10 punti

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Gerhard Richter nasce a Dresda, in Germania, il 9 febbraio 1932. Cresce nella Germania dell’Est durante il periodo nazista e poi sotto il regime socialista. Dopo una prima formazione in pittura murale presso l’Accademia di Belle Arti di Dresda, la sua arte iniziale è legata al realismo socialista, lo stile ufficiale imposto dal regime comunista. Nel 1961, appena prima della costruzione del Muro di Berlino, Richter fugge a Ovest e si trasferisce a Düsseldorf. Qui si iscrive alla Kunstakademie, dove studia con artisti come Karl Otto Götz. Questo passaggio sarà determinante: a contatto con la cultura occidentale, Richter abbandona il realismo socialista e inizia a sperimentare nuove forme espressive.

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Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden, Germany, on February 9, 1932. He grew up in East Germany during the Nazi period and then under the socialist regime. After an initial training in mural painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, his early art is linked to socialist realism, the official style imposed by the communist regime. In 1961, just before the construction of the Berlin Wall, Richter fled to the West and moved to Düsseldorf. There he enrolled at the Kunstakademie, where he studied with artists such as Karl Otto Götz. This step was to be decisive: in contact with Western culture, Richter abandoned socialist realism and began to experiment with new forms of expression. Starting in the 1960s, Richter developed a unique style that merged painting and photography. His famous blurry photorealistic paintings – such as “Zwei Liebespaare” (1963) – were taken from personal photographs or found in newspapers. The blurred effect obtained with the brush creates an aura of memory and uncertainty, questioning the truth of the image. In the 1980s and 1990s, Richter alternated his photo paintings with large abstract canvases, characterized by layers of color spread with spatulas and blades. Works such as “Abstract Painting (809-4)” show the energy and controlled randomness of his pictorial gestures. These works reflect a profound reflection on the impossibility of representing reality in a univocal way. In 1988 he created the cycle “18 October 1977”, a series of 15 paintings dedicated to the members of the Rote Armee Fraktion (RAF), a German terrorist group. Richter paints in black and white, taking newspaper photographs. The cycle expresses the complexity of recent German history and the difficulty of representing it without judgment. One of Richter’s longest-running projects is Atlas, a huge visual archive that collects photographs, sketches, clippings, Polaroids and drafts. Begun in the 1960s, it is both a working tool and an autonomous art form, reflecting his vision of reality as fragmented and layered. Richter is also the author of monumental works for religious spaces. In 2007 he completed the spectacular abstract stained glass window for Cologne Cathedral, composed of 11,500 colored squares of blown glass. A work that combines spirituality, minimalism and abstraction. Gerhard Richter is today among the most quoted and celebrated living artists in the world. He has exhibited in major international museums, including the MoMA in New York, the Tate Modern in London and the Centre Pompidou in Paris. He has received numerous awards, including the Praemium Imperiale (1997) and the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale (1972). Richter has always rejected any classification: figurative or abstract, painter or photographer, political or poetic. His research revolves around the ambiguity of the image, memory and the role of painting today, in a world dominated by photography and digital. At over 90 years old, Richter continues to influence generations of artists with his art suspended between lucidity and uncertainty. His work is a profound reflection on the boundary between visible and invisible, between what we remember and what we can only imagine.