The world-famous artist Gerhard Richter turns 90 today, February 9, and Germany is celebrating his legacy with a group of exhibitions offering new angles on his decades-long career. The trio of shows ...

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 ...

For one of the most influential artists of the 20th century, it all started with a photograph of a modernist table seen in ...

In honor of artist Gerhard Richter's 94th birthday, the story of "Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral Square, Milan)," the $37 million painting that hung for 15 years next to the front desk at the Park Hyatt ...

Gerhard Richter, “Betty” (1977), oil on wood, 11 13/16 × 15 3/4 inches (all images courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art) For an artist in his late 80s, Gerhard Richter has managed to remain ...

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.

Tate Modern's tremendous survey of the German master Gerhard Richter opens with a painting of second world war bombers shedding their ordnance from that other world above the clouds. It is clearly ...

The exhibition Gerhard Richter: Abstraction, held at the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, focuses on works by the renowned German painter which reveal his abstract strategies and techniques. The ...