Gerhard Richter: Atlas
Gerhard Richter: Atlas
Gerhard Richter: Atlas
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
06 December 2003 - 14 March 2004
Gerhard Richter's Atlas collection of motifs, including photographs, sketches and newspaper clippings, has been modified over the years and continually expanded.
This exhibition of Atlas displayed 691 sheets from the collection.
View the complete Atlas here.

48 Portraits
48 Portraits
1998 68.9 cm x 53.9 cm Catalogue Raisonné: 94
Photographs on Baryta paper between matt Plexiglas and Dibond plates
48 photographs per edition after the oil paintings 48 Portraits [CR: 324/1-48] from 1971/72, made by Richter for the Venice Biennale in 1972.
Edition:
- 4 copies, signed in felt-tip pen, numbered on reverse, titled and dated on label on reverse.
- 2 artist's proof, signed in felt-tip pen, numbered in Roman numerals, titled and dated on label on reverse, marked on reverse: a.p.
- 3 trial proofs (only Oscar Wilde), signed in felt-tip pen, dated on reverse, marked on reverse: Probe.
- 1 trial proof (only Thomas Mann), signed in felt-tip pen, numbered on reverse, dated on reverse, marked on reverse: Probe.
This Atlas sheet includes the source images of the following works:















This artwork was shown in the following exhibitions::
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Gerhard Richter: Die Editionen | edit | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter | Elger, Dietmar / Fajt, Jiří edit | 2017 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The publication Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965 – 2013 updates the catalogue raisonné of his editions that was published ten years earlier. This book includes additionally 35 new and hitherto unknown works ... |
Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2013 | Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas edit | 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The publication Gerhard Richter. Editionen 1965 – 2013 updates the catalogue raisonné of his editions that was published ten years earlier. This book includes additionally 35 new and hitherto unknown works ... |
Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2013 | Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan / Olbricht, Thomas edit | 2014 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibitions |
Gerhard Richter, Panorama: une rétrospective = a retrospective | Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine edit | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama: Retrospektive | Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine edit | 2012 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter: Panorama: A Retrospective | Godfrey, Mark / Serota, Nicholas / Brill, Dorothée / Morineau, Camille / Borchardt-Hume, Achim / Dickson, Amy / Haidu, Rachel / Mehring, Christine edit | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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The catalogue Gerhard Richter. Atlas displays 783 plates of Gerhard Richter’s Atlas. Atlas is a collection of photographs, newspaper cuttings and sketches, which the artist compiled and then arranged on single sheets ... |
Gerhard Richter. Atlas | Friedel, Helmut edit | 2011 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre. ... |
Gerhard Richter, Maler | Elger, Dietmar edit | 2008 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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At 864 pages, this monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of Gerhard Richter. Conceived and closely edited by Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's work ... |
Gerhard Richter. Atlas | Friedel, Helmut edit | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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At 864 pages, this monumental and comprehensive publication maps the ideas, processes, life and times of Gerhard Richter. Conceived and closely edited by Richter himself, Atlas cuts straight to the heart of the artist's work ... |
Gerhard Richter. Atlas | Friedel, Helmut edit | 2006 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibitions
This catalogue raisonné records Richter’s works in the years 1993-2004. In his work, Gerhard Richter calls into question painting's boundaries, and the labels applied to painting and theories connected with them. ... |
Gerhard Richter. Catalogue Raisonné 1993–2004 | Zweite, Armin edit | 2005 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibitions
The catalogue raisonné of Gerhard Richters editions 1965–2004 was published to coincided with exhibitions in Bonn, Lucerne, Emden, Tübingen and Salzburg. ... |
Gerhard Richter: Editionen 1965-2004 | Butin, Hubertus / Gronert, Stefan edit | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Exhibitions
The catalogue raisonné of Gerhard Richters editions 1965–2004 was published to coincide with exhibitions in Bonn, Lucerne, Emden, Tübingen and Salzburg. ... |
Gerhard Richter: Editions 1965-2004 | edit | 2004 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter, Maler gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre. ... |
Gerhard Richter, Maler | Elger, Dietmar edit | 2002 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter in Dallas Collections | Wylie, Charles edit | 2000 | |||||||||||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter 1998 | Hentschel, Martin / Friedel, Helmut edit | 1998 |
3 related publications
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Snap of the gods | Cumming, Laura | 2003 | |||||||||||||
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Slow developer | Searle, Adrian | 2003 | |||||||||||||
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Gerhard Richter. Atlas the Reader | Buchloh, Benjamin H. D. / Chevrier, Jean-Francois / Cook, Lynne / Friedel, Helmut / Zweite, Armin | 2003 |