Gerhard Richter is certainly the best-known and most important contemporary German artist. Richter has already been a guest of the Museum of Art Lucerne over thirty years ago, in 1969, with his paintings of cities and forests, and then again in 1973, with a more wide-ranging selection. While his paintings can nowadays be seen in museums and galleries all over the world, his prints have hardly ever been the subject of an exhibition in their own right. The exhibition of all his prints, photographic editions and artist’s books, organised by Kunstmuseum Bonn, now presents altogether some 200 of Richter’s works from the period between 1965 and 2004, and provides a new vision of the development of these media throughout his oeuvre.

The exhibition includes prominent motifs familiar from Richter’s painting, such as Ema (Nude on a Staircase), Betty, 48 Portraits, Colour Fields, Uncle Rudi and Mao, but also barely known works as well as self-portraits that have never been shown before. After its stop at the Museum of Art Lucerne, the exhibition organised by Kunstmuseum Bonn will be shown in the Kunsthalle Emden, Kunsthalle Tübingen and in the Museum der Moderne in Salzburg.