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Davos
1973/1974 Atlas Sheet: 336
Davos
1973/1974 Atlas Sheet: 337
Davos
1973/1974 Atlas Sheet: 338
Davos
1973/1974 Atlas Sheet: 339
Davos
1973/1974 Atlas Sheet: 340
Davos
1981 Catalogue Raisonné: 468-1
Davos
1981 Catalogue Raisonné: 468-2
Davos S.
1981 Catalogue Raisonné: 468-3

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The 1980s: Rising to International Acclaim

In the early 1980s, painting was reaffirming its status in the art world, with neo-expressionism (or 'Neue Wilde' as it was sometimes referred to in Germany) heading its revival. In the US, figures such as Philip Guston and Julian Schnabel were leading practitioners, and in Germany Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer had risen to fame. In early 1981, an exhibition at the Royal Academy in London entitled A New Spirit in Painting brought many of these artists together – including Richter.[...]

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Chronology

1932: 9 February: Gerhard Richter is born in Dresden to Hildegard Richter, a bookseller, and Horst Richter, a school teacher.

1933: 30 January: Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor.

1936: the Richter family moves to Reichenau, a town close to Dresden, today known as Bogatynia in Poland. Richter's sister Gisela is born.

1939: 1 September: the German invasion of Poland begins; Horst is drafted in to the military and sent to the Eastern Front.

1942: Richter joins the Pimpfe, an organisation that[...]

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At the end of 1977 and the beginning of 1978, the first series of watercolours came about. Was there an external reason why you now devoted yourself more intensely to this technique?
It was the most suitable, and the excuse for two weeks of vacation in Davos. Small watercolours are easy to do in a hotel room.

Interview with Dieter Schwarz, 1999, 1999 SOURCE
Gerhard Richter: Text. Writings, Interviews and Letters 1961–2007, Thames & Hudson, London, 2009, p. 14

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Photo Paintings Davos, CR: 468-2