Gerhard Richter (1932) - Victoria I

Gerhard Richter (1932), Victoria I, 2003.

Farboffset, 60 x 40cm to 80 x 60 cm. Signed, signed and dated on the plate.

Provenance: from a private collection in Berlin of an ERGO employee.

Literature: Butin (2004) Appendix p. 283

About:
Offset print after the original in the Victoria (now ERGO) insurance, Düsseldorf. Based on the large-format original works by Richter hanging in the insurance company's headquarters, which are considered his main works and which he named 'Victoria I' and 'Victoria II' as references to his client.

Gerhard Richter (born 1932 in Dresden) is one of the most influential contemporary artists worldwide. Since the early 1960s, he has developed a multifaceted body of work spanning photorealism, abstraction, and conceptual painting, which has made a significant mark on international art history. Richter was trained at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and later at the Düsseldorf Academy of Fine Arts, where he influenced an entire generation of young artists over decades.
He became known for his blurry photographs, large-format abstract images, color panels, and glass works that repeatedly raise questions about perception, reality, and image construction. Works by Gerhard Richter are housed in major museums worldwide, including the Museum of Modern Art, Tate Modern, Centre Pompidou, and numerous German institutions.
Richter is regarded as one of the most expensive and most collected living artists. His work is central to the development of painting after 1945 and is widely exhibited, published in scientific publications, and highly regarded in the art market internationally. He lives and works in Cologne.