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 ...

A new exhibition of works by Gerhard Richter—made in response to Switzerland ... metamorphosed into exquisite abstract impressions. “The Engadin has long been a centre of creativity and ...

Gerhard Richter is the world’s most famous living ... simple glass sculptures of colorful abstractions, like “Abstract Bild,” which sold for $30 million at auction in 2012, breaking the ...

By Catherine Hickley Reporting from Berlin Four large abstract paintings made with layered streaks of black, gray, red and green are the centerpiece of a new Gerhard Richter exhibition that opens ...

Basis of Gerhard Richter paintings are 4 abstract photos secretly taken in 1944 by Jewish prisoners at Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp, who risked their lives doing so ...

Eric Clapton's chromatic painting by Gerhard Richter, "Abstract Painting (809-4)," sold at Sotheby's contemporary art evening auction in London on Friday for £21.3 million, or $34.2 million-more ...

"Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin" shows for ... The four large canvases of the Birkenau series are abstract paintings with many gray and black surfaces, but also some red and green dashes.

Gerhard Richter’s painting Abstraktes Bild ... The piece is one of the 24 large-scale paintings from Richter’s abstract series, half of which are kept in museum collections around the world ...

Gerhard Richter’s sudden departure from ... Phillips is offering a Richter abstract consigned by French collector Marcel Brient. Titled Mathis (1983), the early, more gestural abstract canvas ...

An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting ... as he prepares a series of abstract canvases.

Gerhard Richter, one of the most important German ... energy and an engagement with the textures of his work. In these abstract works you see his deep understanding of color and of paint itself.