“People won’t stop painting,” Gerhard Richter told TIME in 2012, “just as they won’t stop making music or dancing.”

Qatar Museums is to build a permanent pavilion designed by Gerhard Richter in Doha, conceived by the artist as both a three-dimensional artwork and a space dedicated to a key body of his work.

Gerhard Richter remains a central figure in major public collections worldwide. His works anchor key displays in Berlin, Bonn and beyond, underscoring how museums keep his practice present for new audiences.

In his classic study of perception in the industrial age, The Railway Journey, Wolfgang Schivelbusch described the visual blur that accompanied the view out the window from a moving train: the world encountered at a speed humans had not previously known.

At David Zwirner New York, Gerhard Richter’s landscapes and Jasper Johns’s process-driven works explore image-making across abstraction, memory and repetition.

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Gerhard Richter, the legendary German visual artist, once tried to explain his oeuvre’s parallel devotion to realism and abstraction this way: “I believe that every detail from nature has a logic that I would also like to see in abstraction,” he said.

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.