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Mar 9, 2020 · One, “Uncle Rudi” (1965), is of a relative—in uniform and smiling goofily—who died fighting in the war. Another, “Aunt Marianne” (painted in 1965 and rendered as a luminous digital ...
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Oct 26, 2017 · It’s accompanied by his enigmatic 1965 photo-paintings, Aunt Marianne and Uncle Rudi – which simultaneously consider Richter’s personal life and German national history. While in real life Richter’s Aunt Marianne died because of her mismanaged treatment at the hands of Nazi doctors, the artist’s Uncle Rudi joined the German army.
- Refusing Style
- The Impossibility of Meaning
- Image and Ideology
- Uncle Rudi
Meaning in Gerhard Richter’s art can also keep its distance. The elusiveness of meaning is, in some ways, a central subject of Richter’s art. Since the early 1950s, Richter has painted a huge number of subjects in wildly conflicting styles. For most artists, one style emerges and evolves slowly, almost imperceptibly, over the course of their career...
During Richter’s long career, he has produced art in an unprecedented number of conflicting styles starting with the propagandistic Social Realist art he made as a student at the Dresden Art Academy in Communist East Germany. After his move in 1961 to Düsseldorf in the West (via Berlin—the wall was begun the same year), he co-founded a German varia...
Richter was born in Dresden, Germany on the eve of the Second World War. His two uncles were killed in the war and his father served, but survived. His schizophrenic aunt, Marianne, was murdered by the Nazis as part of their drive to euthanize the sick. Less than a week after his thirteenth birthday, Richter heard some 3,600 British and American pl...
Uncle Rudi, the painting the woman had stepped closer to see, is painted in the grays of a black and white photograph. It is small and has the intimacy of a family snapshot. We see a young man smiling proudly and awkwardly. He is clearly self-conscious as he poses in his new uniform. One has the sense that a moment before he was talking to the pers...
In 1965, Richter painted Uncle Rudi, showing his maternal uncle who served as a Wehrmacht (German army) officer until his death in 1944. He also depicted another family member that had been lost in the war in Aunt Marianne [CR: 87] , his mother’s sister who had died though the Nazi eugenics programme.
Nov 23, 2020 · In a long and engrossing interview with the exhibition’s curator, Götz Adriani, in the Stuttgart/Hamburg catalogue, Richter takes issue with Schreiber’s biographical approach to his paintings of the 1960s, especially those such as Uncle Rudi and Aunt Marianne (both 1965), which were based on black-and-white photographs in the family album ...
Oct 17, 2017 · Gerhard Richter’s Reader (804) in full, 1994 Oil on canvas. 72 x 102cm. ... as well as family photographs of Uncle Rudi (1965), shown in his Nazi military uniform, or Aunt Marianne (1965 ...
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Aug 25, 2021 · Elsewhere, memories of war and death pervade his work, most notably with his 1965 painting Uncle Rudi, of his maternal uncle who’d served and died in the German army, and Aunt Marianne (1965), depicting another family member lost to the war, this time to the Nazi eugenics programme.
