Gerhard Richter (The South Bank Show) Explained

Series:The South Bank Show
Series No:26
Episode:10
Director:Gerald Fox
Music:John Quinn
Length:51 minutes

"Gerhard Richter" is an art documentary episode which was broadcast on 2 February 2003, based on the life of a German visual artist Gerhard Richter[1] on The South Bank Show. The documentary was a production of LWT for the ITV series.[2] It was directed and produced by Gerald Fox, introduced by Melvyn Bragg, and featured Gerhard Richter.[3] [4]

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Production

Richter talks about how he grew up in East Germany where he attended Dresden's art school[5] [6] and escaped to the other side just before the Berlin Wall was built[7] [8] in this documentary. His entire artistic career is told in the documentary "Gerhardt Richter" made around the time of his enormously successful American retrospective at MOMA and SFMOMA[9] [10] entitled "40 Years of Paintings."[11] The movie follows the artist at his house in Cologne, where he is undergoing a period of reflection and preparation before moving on to another series of paintings.[12] [13]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 2022-02-09 . Artist Gerhard Richter at 90 . 2023-04-28 . The Indian Express . en.
  2. News: Saltz . Rachel . 2012-03-13 . An Artist at Work, Looking and Judging . en-US . The New York Times . 2023-04-28 . 0362-4331.
  3. Web site: Gerhard Richter (2003) . https://web.archive.org/web/20230421195713/https://www2.bfi.org.uk/films-tv-people/4ce2b8946fbe2 . dead . April 21, 2023 . 2023-04-21 . BFI . en.
  4. Web site: Richter, Gerhard . 2023-04-28 . vivo.brown.edu.
  5. Web site: 2020-04-01 . Gerhard Richter: Germany's First Pop Artist . 2023-04-21 . TheCollector . en.
  6. Web site: 2021-02-22 . Gerhard Richter Interview . 2023-04-28 . Gagosian Quarterly . en.
  7. Web site: Gerhard Richter's Biography . 2023-04-21 . www.artnet.com.
  8. 2020-03-04 . The Dark Revelations of Gerhard Richter . 2023-04-28 . The New Yorker . en-US.
  9. Web site: Life and Work of Gerhard Richter, Abstract and Photorealistic Artist . 2023-04-28 . ThoughtCo . en.
  10. Web site: NY . CHIPS . Gerhard Richter Painting official film site . 2023-04-28 . en.
  11. Web site: Gerhard Richter Paintings, Bio, Ideas . 2023-04-21 . The Art Story.
  12. Web site: Early Years » Biography » Gerhard Richter . 2023-04-21 . gerhard-richter.com . en.
  13. Web site: Gerhard Richter: Biography, Art, & Facts Britannica . 2023-04-28 . www.britannica.com . en.

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