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’

Born in 1932, Richter was featured in the Fondation Louis Vuitton’s inaugural presentation in 2014 with works from the Collection. Now, the Fondation will dedicate all its galleries to the artist with a retrospective, unmatched in scale and chronological scope. Covering 1962 to 2024, the exhibition of 275 works—oil paintings, glass and steel sculptures, pencil and ink drawings, watercolors, and overpainted photographs—offers, for the first time, a comprehensive view of Richter’s creation over six decades.