Gerhard Richter Atlas

Right from the beginning, Gerhard Richter closely links his creative artistic work, his painting as well as other visual works, with the collection of their image models. Mostly it is a matter of photographic 'images' of various kinds which, along with other visual notes such as sketches and collages, have been entered in his Atlas. The photographs which Richter collects and makes provide him with models for paintings which offer the advantage of already having reached a high degree of 'stylisation' before he goes in search of his own painting. The conceptual character of Gerhard Richter's art becomes plain not least from the multitude of different formal and substantial approaches which the Atlas unifies within itself as a work composed of sheets. The present Atlas is published in a revised version and format, actualized and created by the artist himself. Gerhard Richter conceptualized the new format for this presentation, providing a single page for each panel thereby developing a new book format.