Museum Frieder Burda
Lichtentaler Allee 8 b
Baden-Baden
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Gerhard Richter. Paintings
from private collections
January 19, 2008
-April 27, 2008

Gerhard Richter will mark the beginning of the new year at the Frieder Burda Museum. From January 19 to April 27, 2008, a large Richter show with important works from the private collections Böckmann (Berlin), Ströher (Darmstadt) and Frieder Burda, complemented by works in the artist’s own possession, will be presented in Baden-Baden with more than 60 mostly large scale works dating from 1963 to 2007.

The exhibition will present the whole range of Richter’s excessive œuvre, from photorealistic paintings to large-scale abstract compositions with their fascinating colours and technical perfection, focusing on all the different painting techniques Richters excels in. The Frieder Burda Museum is happy to announce that the Baden-Baden show is going to be curated by Gerhard Richter himself. The opportunity to bring his paintings into a dramatic dialogue with Richard Meyer’s breathtaking Museum architecture matters a lot to Richter. The approximately 60 exhibited works from private collections will provide a fantastic insight in more than 40 years of creativity, reflecting German post-war history as well as the notion of painting itself.

Götz Adriani about Richter: "Richter has become the leading global authority over the last decades, a kind of artistic yardstick. He, therefore, is the only German painter who has been honored with a comprising retrospective at the New York Museum of Modern Art during his lifetime."

The collections shown in Baden-Baden complement each other perfectly. The idea goes back to the large Polke retrospective in 2007. Due to the success of this retrospective, that combined three private collections at the Frieder Burda Museum, the museum had decided to organize further exhibitions based on the same conception. Another Georg Baselitz show is planned for spring 2009.

Subsequent shows of the Richter exhibition (in changed arrangement) will be shown from May 9 to July 2, 2008, in the run-up to the Olympics 2008 at the National Art Museum of China, Beijing, from November 1, 2008 to January 4, 2009 at the National Gallery Complexe in Edinburgh, from January 24 to May 3, 2009 at the Albertina in Vienna and, from May 16 to August 16, 2009, at the MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg.

The exhibition will be accompagnied by a catalogue edited by Götz Adriani, including comprehensive notes on the inventory of Richter paintings of the participating collections.

Gerhard Richter, Alfa Romeo, 1965, 150 x 155 cm, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated on reverse, Museum Frieder Burda,
Baden-Baden, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Motorboot (1. Fassung), 1965, 169.5 x 169.5 cm, Oil on canvas, Private Collection,, Permanent loan
Galerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda.

Gerhard Richter, Gelbgrün, 1982, 2 parts, each 260 x 200 cm, Oil on canvas, Signed and dated on reverse,Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, 25 Farben, 2007, 48,5 x 48,5 cm, Enamel paint on aluminium panel,Private Collection, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Tote, 1963, 100 x 150 cm, Oil on canvas, Private Collection, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Decke, 1988, 200 x 140 cm, Oil on canvas, Collection Böckmann, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Ausschnitt, 1971, 3 parts, each 250 x125 cm, together: 250 x 375 cm, Oil on canvas,Weserburg – Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Collection Böckmann, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda.

Gerhard Richter, 25 Farben, 2007, 48.5 x 48.5 cm, Enamel paint on aluminium panel, Private Collection, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Krems, 1986, 72 x 102 cm, Oil on canvas, Collection
Böckmann, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.

Gerhard Richter, Pavillon, 1982, 100 x 70 cm, Oil on canvas, Collection Böckmann, © Gerhard Richter, Photo: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden.