✨AI Reimagines the Masters✨ Gerhard Richter|296/1000

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Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist born on February 9, 1932, in Dresden, Germany [1]. He is widely regarded as one of the most important contemporary German artists and has made significant contributions to the medium of painting [1].

Early Life and Education:

Richter grew up in Reichenau and Waltersdorf in the Upper Lusatian countryside [1].

His father was a village teacher, and his mother trained as a bookseller [1].

Richter left school after 10th grade and apprenticed as an advertising and stage-set painter before studying at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts [1].

Career and Artistic Style:

Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, photographs, and glass pieces [1].

In the early days of his career, he created wall paintings and murals, including "Communion with Picasso" and "Lebensfreude" [1].

Richter escaped from East to West Germany in 1961, where he began studying at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf [1].

He introduced the term "Kapitalistischer Realismus" (Capitalistic Realism) as an anti-style of art, commenting on the consumer-driven art doctrine of western capitalism [1].

Richter's photo-paintings, created during the 1960s and early 1970s, were based on various sources such as newspapers, books, and private snapshots [1].