Dr Dietmar Elger from the Gerhard Richter Archive, gives a concise overview of the work by Gerhard Richter from his early photo paintings to the recent window for the Cologne cathedral.

During the 1960s Gerhard Richter found himself confronted with a world of mass media images and the omnipresence of photographic images. Richter responded to this challenge by adopting the typical stylistic elements from photography for his paintings. He will also explain how Richter later transferred this artistic concept to his Abstract Paintings.