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A Conversation between Justin Smith-Ruiu and Lawrence Weschler

The work of the 94-year-old German artist, now retired, tests the limits of memory and the image itself.

Richter is another artist renowned for a radical painting technique: in his case, applying layers of wet paint to a canvas and then dragging a squeegee across its surface.

Dieter Schwarz, co-curator of Gerhard Richter at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, explores how this painting of a photographed rural scene helped to establish Richter as Germany’s leading artist

In 2017, Gerhard Richter fulfilled his collectors’ deepest, darkest dream: he announced he was done with painting.

‘Gerhard Richter’, at the Fondation Louis Vuitton in Paris, is a 275-work survey that surely won’t be equalled for scale and wealth of loans in its subject’s lifetime.

German painter Gerhard Richter, 93, remains the most important artist worldwide in a ranking by Germany's Kunstkompass (Art Compass) ranking, with the Cologne-based painter having held the top position unchallenged for 22 years now.

He has painted everything from a candle to 9/11, walked his naked wife through photographic mist, and turned Titian into a sacred jumble. This thrilling show, boasting 270 works, reveals the German in all his contradictory brilliance

A retrospective in Paris makes for a surprisingly personal journey through history with this purportedly impersonal artist

After its blockbuster David Hockney show, the Fondation Louis Vuitton turns to another great living artist: Gerhard Richter (17 October–2 March 2026). This exhibition is ordered chronologically, taking us from Table (1962) – which Richter considers his first painting – to drawings made as recently as last year.

Dieter Schwarz, co-curator of a forthcoming retrospective of Richter’s work at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, shares his thoughts on a work offered in London on 15 October, and why he believes the artist ‘found the flowers too beautiful to be true’