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Atlas is an ongoing, encyclopedic work composed of approximately
4,000 photographs, reproductions or cut-out details of photographs
and illustrations, grouped together on approximately 600 separate
panels. The images closely parallel, year by year, the subjects
of Richter's paintings, revealing the orderly but open-ended analysis
central to his art.
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| Checklist of Works |
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Atlas, c. 1964-1995
583 panels, each panel 26 ¼ x 20 ¼ or 20 ¼ x 14 ¼
Collection Dürckheim, Germany
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| Selected Bibliography |
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Gerhard Richter. London: Tate Gallery, 1991. Texts by Neal
Ascherson, Stefan Germer, and Sean Rainbird.
Gerhard Richter. 3 vols. Bonn: Kunst- und Austellungshalle
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, 1993. Texts by Benjamin H.D. Buchloh,
Peter Gidal, and Birgit Pelzer.
Gerhard Richter: Atlas. Munich: St„dtische Galerie
in Lenbachhaus and Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 1990. Text by Armin
Zweite.
Parkett 35 (1993). "Gerhard Richter Collaboration."
Texts by Jean-Pierre Criqui, Peter Gidal, Dave Hickey, Gertrude
Koch, Birgit Pelzer.
Dietrich, Dorothea. "Gerhard Richter: An Interview,"
The Print Collector's Newsletter 16, no. 4 (Sept./Oct.
1985), pp. 128-32.
"Gerhard Richter/Jan Thorn-Prikker: Ruminations on the October
18, 1977 Cycle," Parkett 19 (1989), pp. 143-53.
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| Biography |
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Gerhard Richter was born in Dresden in 1932. He studied at the
Kunstakademie in Dresden between 1951 and 1956 before moving to
Düsseldorf in 1961. Over the next two years he completed
his studies at the Düsseldorf Kunstakademie, where he has
been Professor since 1971. In addition to participating widely
in group shows, Richter has had numerous one-person exhibitions.
In 1993-94, the fourth major retrospective of his work to date
traveled throughout Europe.
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| Funding |
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Major funding for this exhibition has been provided by the Lannan
Foundation, with additional generous support from: Lufthansa German
Airlines; Doris and Don Fisher; Mimi and Peter Haas; Linda and
Harry Macklowe; Ann Tenenbaum and Thomas H. Lee; and the members
of the Dia Art Council and Art Circle.
Thanks to Rainald Schumacher for his assistance on the project.
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