With a career spanning nearly six decades, Gerhard Richter is widely considered one of the greatest artists of our time. To explore the artist's work and life, click on an image below.

Discover Richter's versatile oeuvre, ranging from oils on canvas, works on paper, overpainted photographs and Atlas, his collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches.

Richter officially began painting in 1962. Here we give you access to his various works, comprising photo paintings and abstracts. Show all Although the artist intentionally avoids classification, we have placed his paintings into subjective categories for easy viewing.

Gerhard Richter's Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches that the artist has been assembling since the mid 1960s. A few years later, Richter started to arrange the materials on loose sheets of paper.

Since the mid 1980s Gerhard Richter has created more than 2,000 Overpainted Photographs – with new artworks continually being produced. This large body of work illustrates Richter’s wide range of creative achievement in this medium.

This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them....

Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.

Gerhard Richter. Bücher is the first publication that exclusively addresses Gerhard Richter’s artist’s books. Starting with a brief introduction to the history of the genre, Dieter Schwarz proceeds to analyse Richter’s diverse publications, which don’t necessarily stand out with extravagant covers, but are versatile in dealing with ...

The Albertinum in Dresden opens three rooms dedicated to Richter’s art. The German business magazine Capital nominates Richter as the most important artist in the world on the influential Kunst-Kompass. Receives the Katholischer Kunst und Kulturpreis, Bonn.

Gerhard Richter art including works, atlas, editions, overpainted photographs, watercolours and drawings