Gerhard Richter

Who is Gerhard Richter?

Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist and one of the pioneers of the New European Painting that has emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style.

In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at £21m. This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand was sold for $37.1 million in New York.