In the transfixing documentary Gerhard Richter Painting, one of the world's most famous living painters drags a giant squeegee across a giant canvas. Huge walls of primary colors cover the entire ...

As the opening credits roll on Gerhard Richter Painting, Corrina Belz’s new documentary about the artist now screening at Film Forum, the sound of breathing is first audible, then visible as the first ...

Gerhard Richter (born 1932) has a reputation for saving painting from the dead end of Minimalism in the 1960s, through the reintroduction of potent themes and beautiful imagery in his photo-style ...

With his wildly differing styles and notorious reluctance to be interviewed, the German painter Gerhard Richter is one of the most enigmatic of artists. Yet Martin Gayford finds him surprisingly ...

Around this time, Richter was still painting in grays, though often laid on thick. He zoomed in so close on his subjects — ...

Why has the German artist been dubbed the "Picasso of the 21st century"? Here's a look at one of the world's most important living painters as he turns 90. Gerhard Richter could easily walk ...

Toward the end of the Gerhard Richter retrospective at MoMA—one of the largest the museum has ever devoted to a contemporary artist—there’s an untypical work that nevertheless suggests a metaphor for ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Many of art’s breakthroughs have been achieved by pairs of figures, urging each other on to the unthinkable: Picasso ...

Iranian super-collectors Eskandar and Fatima Maleki have put the work up for auction at Sotheby's in their February 10 evening sale, and the prediction is that Mr. Richter could break his own record ...

Up for two Oscars, the film Never Look Away is officially about an artist of another name, but the German painter feels it's still too close to his life story and that it "grossly distorts" it, he ...

Gerhard Richter's Birkenau series: 'bitterly cold, snowbound landscapes' Credit: Photo: Photoshot. All rights reserved. Anyone who doubts that contemporary art now ...