Fine Art II Artist
Rank 20
Gerhard Richter
The living painter’s painter—abstraction and photo-painting held in one career.
Photograph by Jindřich Nosek, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons, resized
Why it is here
Artforum’s MoMA retrospective coverage called his dual body of work the perfect expression of what it means to paint today. The Art Newspaper’s 2025 coverage of the Fondation Louis Vuitton retrospective—co-curated by Nicholas Serota with ~270 works from 1962 to 2024—confirms unmatched living-career institutional scale, with loans from MoMA, Tate, Hirshhorn, and Museum Ludwig.
Who it is for
UHNW collectors who treat postwar German painting as a pillar of contemporary museum culture and want living-canon depth.
Sources
- Gerhard RichterMoMA retrospective review argues seeing abstraction and photorealism together shows Richter’s dual practice as the perfect expression of contemporary mastery in painting.
- A blockbuster Gerhard Richter retrospective, co-organised by Nicholas Serota, is coming to ParisFondation Louis Vuitton retrospective of ~270 works (1962–2024), co-curated by Serota and Dieter Schwarz; loans include MoMA October 18, 1977 cycle, Tate Abstraktes Bild, Hirshhorn, Museum Ludwig Betty.
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