Gecertificeerd Gerhard Richter – Siri Hustvedt; Uwe M Schneede; Botho Strauss

Gerhard Richter has time and again drawn on photographs as the basis for works in his multifaceted oeuvre, and art historians have frequently studied his blurred paintings of photographs. However, Richter has also taken painted directly on commercial prints in oil. Inspired by the accidental spots and traces of paint on the source material, he produced pictorial overpaintings. These kinds of overpaintings appeared in works as early as his Atlas.nnPractically all of these mostly small-format paintings are in…