Artist Gerhard Richter's Paintings from the 1980s | Christie's

'These are object lessons in what painting can be'. Art critic Adrian Searle celebrates the work of the world-renowned German artist Gerhard Richter.

Gerhard Richter (b. 1932) is ‘the most complicated of painters’, observes the art critic Adrian Searle. For over half a century, the German painter has been a compelling if elusive presence in the art world, confounding audiences with his transitions between styles and techniques.

Standing before a number of Richter’s realist and abstract pictures from the 1980s — a decade the critic describes as ‘one of the most contradictory periods in the artist’s career’ — Searle explains that ‘even though they look like they’ve been done by 10 different artists, you always know a Richter’. This, he says, is chiefly because of their psychological power.

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