German painter Gerhard Richter feels at times like half-a-dozen artists rolled into one. In his figurative work, he ranges from near-photorealism to a kind of “distortionism” in which photograph-based ...

An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting" offers fascinating insight into the working process of the famed ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Gerhard Richter’s iconic painting 4096 Farben is set to be auctioned at Sotheby’s Contemporary Evening Auction in New York on May ...

Last week, Gerhard Richter—one of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries—celebrated his 90th birthday. In his native Germany and abroad, a host of galleries and institutions lauded ...

Countless documentaries have feebly attempted to probe and illuminate the creative process (the phrase “dancing about architecture” springs to mind), and even artist Gerhard Richter—an 80-year-old ...

A new public sculpture by Gerhard Richter has been unveiled at Serpentine South in Kensington Gardens. At 92, the celebrated German artist has never stopped experimenting with a range of media and has ...

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 ...

Gerhard Richter Painting, a new documentary on the 80-year-old German artist Gerhard Richter, takes us right into his Cologne studio. Devoting most of its screen time to the artist at work, the ...

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 ...