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Tate Modern Exhibition

Gerhard Richter: Panorama

6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012
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Spanning nearly five decades, and coinciding with the artist’s 80th birthday, Gerhard Richter: Panorama is a major retrospective exhibition that groups together significant moments of his remarkable career.

Since the 1960s, Gerhard Richter has immersed himself in a rich and varied exploration of painting. Gerhard Richter: Panorama highlights the full extent of the artist's work, which has encompassed a diverse range of techniques and ideas. It includes realist paintings based on photographs, colourful gestural abstractions such as the squeegee paintings, portraits, subtle landscapes and history paintings.

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Gerhard Richter: Panorama

Gerhard Richter was one of the first German artists to reflect on the history of National Socialism, creating paintings of family members who had been members, as well as victims of, the Nazi party. Continuing his historical interest, he produced the 15-part work October 18 1977 1988, a sequence of black and white paintings based on images of the Baader Meinhof group. Richter has continued to respond to significant moments in history throughout his career; the final room of the exhibition includes September 2005, a painting of the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York in 2001.

Lovers of the epic beauty of Rothko, Twombly and Hodgkin will have much to enjoy, as will those who appreciate striking portraiture or the crystal-clear precision of photorealism.

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Dates

6 October 2011 – 8 January 2012

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  • Installation view of Thomas Schutte Three Plates Green at Gerhard Richter house

    Judgement days

    Thomas Schütte

    A former student remembers his ‘friendly, but merciless’ teacher

  • Gerhard Richter in his studio photographed by Benjamin Katz

    Inescapable truths

    John-Paul Stonard

    Tate Modern’s  exhibition explores the work produced over almost five decades by one of today’s most highly regarded artists. Richter (b.1932) has made art based on his experiences of growing up during the Third Reich, his years as a student in communist Dresden and his defection to the West in the early 1960s. Later, it has encompassed elements of his private life – marriage, divorce, fatherhood – alongside reflections on the ongoing traumas of national history, from German political violence in the 1970s to international terrorism in the twenty-first century

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    Gerhard Richter

    born 1932
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    Abstract Painting (726)

    Gerhard Richter
    1990
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    St John

    Gerhard Richter
    1988
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    Cage (1) - (6)

    Gerhard Richter
    2006
    On display at Tate Modern Part of In the Studio
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