Gerhard Richter says he never wants his “Birkenau” series of paintings, which remember the Nazi concentration camp, to trade on the art market. That’s why he’s turning them over to the Prussian ...

German artist Gerhard Richter is widely regarded as one of the most important—if not the most important—artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. His distinctive, large-format abstract paintings and ...

Gerhard Richter Painting was directed by Corinna Belz, who previously made a 2007 documentary about Mr. Richter’s creation of stained glass windows for the Cologne Cathedral, which appeared at the ...

In the transfixing documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, one of the world's most famous living painters drags a giant squeegee across a giant canvas. Huge walls of primary colors cover the entire ...

The German artist Gerhard Richter may be the most important painter of our era. But the picture that also made him our most expensive living artist, thanks to an auction in London on Friday, may not ...

In the long arc of art history, we’ve become reluctantly accustomed to the devastating loss of cultural artifacts due to war and human misdeeds, natural disaster, and just plain unfortunate accidents.

Gerhard Richter, one of the most important German painters of the post-WWII era is 91. A recent show at David Zwirner Gallery on 20 th Street in New York, which closed this past weekend, was a vivid ...

APRIL IS OFTEN a time of foggy, gray days and premonitions of rain, as the land—at least here on the East Coast—stirs to life. I happen to love this time of year for what I call its “carwash” effect: ...

Gerhard Richter’s “Cage” suite of large paintings, commissioned for the 2007 Venice Biennale, are almost scenographic in sweep. The epic paintings are unabashedly theatrical, aggressively setting the ...

Gerhard Richter's choir windows at Tholey Abbey. (Photo courtesy of the Meiser family and Abtei Tholey) Three soaring windows took on light for the first time at the oldest abbey in Germany last ...

Colours fuse and split, curdle, judder and smear in the elusive work of a nonagenarian artist still out to surprise The strength and pleasure of Gerhard Richter’s work lies in its boundlessness, its ...

Get the latest entertainment news with our free Culture newsletter Gerhard Richter is a master from Germany. You can't set the scene of contemporary painting without giving him a leading role. There ...