Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting | Documentary: Gerald Fox | ARTHAUS MUSIK

Described in Art Review as the world’s most influential and expensive living artist, the German painter Gerhard Richter was enjoying enormous success in London with his retrospective show at Tate Modern titled "Panorama" in 2011. This particular film was made some years ago at the time of his equally successful American retrospective at MOMA titled "40 Years of Painting" and charts his entire artistic career.
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Born in Dresden in 1932, the year before Hitler came to power, Richter later grew up in communist East Germany, before escaping to the West just before the Wall went up in Berlin. Since then he has produced a large diverse body of work from his blurred photobased paintings to his gigantic abstractions, from his Baader Meinhof pictures to his perceptual installations using sheets of glass. Gerald Fox’s film caught up with the artist at his home in Cologne where he was undergoing a period of quiet reflection and preparation before beginning a new series of paintings.
Producer & Director: Gerald Fox
Edited & Presented: Melvyn Bragg
Production Year: 2003

[@ReyezRayon]

Thanks for re-upload this great doc, also in a higher quality.

[@AlTorresFineArt]

Great doc!

[@robert4724]

How absurd censoring a nude painting at 6:53 that is already blurred.

[@Drbob369]

Images of Kensington Vancouver and tenderloin lol

[@bluefish4580]

The American critic just does not get the work he tries to describe. He misses the point completely.

[@JesusMagicPanties]

A very substantive retort... :D

[@ChrisAcheson]

And so you miss the point pretending to know what Richter is getting at - this is exactly the US critic's point. Banal is a word that sticks in my mind after this.