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19.12.2023 - 19:37 / forbes.com
What a thrill to journey by train to St Moritz in the snowy Swiss Alps to see the work of Gerhard Richter (born in 1932), the German painter who critics describe as our “greatest living artist.” His works can be found in international collections and have been exhibited in numerous museums and galleries in Europe and the United States. He’s also the most expensive European living artist (his abstract painting Abstraktes Bild (599) sold for a record $46.3 million at Sotheby's in London). While Richter’s paintings are highly covetable, collectors visiting his new three-venue exhibition in the Swiss Alps must be content with simply viewing the works as none are for sale.
Presented across three spaces in the picturesque region of Upper Engadin, southeastern Switzerland, Nietzsche-Haus in Sils and the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth in St. Moritz, Gerhard Richter: Engadin (until 13 April 2024) is the first exhibition to explore the painter’s deep connection with the Alpine valley landscape. He vacationed in Sils, in the Upper Engadin, for the first time in 1989 and returned regularly, in the winter and summer, over the next 25 years. The exhibition curated by Richter expert, Dieter Schwarz, features more than 70 works borrowed from museums and private collections in Germany, Japan, Switzerland and the United States – including paintings, overpainted photographs, drawings, and objects.
Gerhard Richter has always painted, even when it was deeply unfashionable to do so and his peers were increasingly turning their back on it (for video, installations and conceptual art). Richter began painting landscapes from photographs in the 1970s in various locations. The photos are projected onto canvas, painted, then blurred with brush to give photographic quality. Also on display here and at Hauser & Wirth are photos overpainted with oil paint. He made many of both of these kind of works in the Engadin area of Switzerland but this is the first time so many have been exhibited together. A steel ball in each venue, an infinite mirror reflecting everything around it, is engraved with names of local mountains, nicely links the three exhibition venues together.
On view at the Segantini Museum and Hauser & Wirth in St Moritz are overpainted photographs and paintings that Richter created from photographs taken during his hikes in the Upper Engadin. Particularly noteworthy is the painting Wasserfall (Waterfall) (1997) from Kunst Museum Winterthur, on show at the Segantini Museum. Of the Wasserfall picture, Richter has said, “the appearance of nature in full bloom intervenes between real nature and ourselves as viewers.” This work clearly traces Richter’s engagement with 19th-century painting, from romanticism to realism
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