Gerhard Richter
b. 1932, Germany
Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany, and lives and works in Cologne, Germany. Collections include the British Museum, London; Städel Museum, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany; Barcelona Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal; Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Art Institute of Chicago; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada. Exhibitions include Paintings 1962–1985, Neue Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Berlin (1986); Paintings, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC (1988–89); Tate, London (1991–92); Paintings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem (1995); 40 Years of Painting, Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); Survey, Ludwig Museum, Budapest (2005); Panorama, Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2012); and National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (2022). In 1972, Richter represented Germany at the 36th Bienniale di Venezia; he has also participated in documenta, Kassel, Germany, more times than any other artist (1972, 1977, 1982, 1987, 1992, 1997, 2007, and 2017). Awards include the Oskar-Kokoschka-Preis, Vienna (1985); Golden Lion, 47th Biennale di Venezia (1997); Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo (1997); and Foreign Honorary Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York (1998). In 2007, Richter received an honorary citizenship of Cologne, Germany.