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Gerhard richter, confrontation 2 gudrun ensslin, 1988 when i look at richters grey paintings, made in the late 1960s, i cant help thinking of max ferber, the jewishgerman painter in wg sebalds 1993 book the emigrants, whose art is as much about erasure as creation. His painting september is a response to the attacks on the world trade center on september 11, 2001, made some four years after the event. Gerhard richter by gerhard richter, andreas hapkemeyer, peter weiermar. Gerhard richters atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches that the artist has been assembling since the mid 1960s.
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