Birds / Vögel, 1964 print by Gerhard Richter - hand-numbered edition of 500.

An extraordinary hand-numbered limited edition Richter print,  produced to exceptional standards in Germany. 

Picture size: 81 x 64 cm
Sheet size: 70 x 100 cm

5-colour hybrid printing on 260g Rives laid paper

© Gerhard Richter 2025 (27112025)

Limited edition: 500 copies - hand-numbered - please note edition number on image is for guidance only and this is not necessarily the edition number you will receive. 

The Kunstmuseum Basel offers this insight:

"Richter trained as a painter at the Dresden Academy of Art in East Germany. In 1961, shortly before the Berlin Wall was erected, he moved to Düsseldorf and enrolled at the art academy there. His artistic environment was suddenly no longer defined by the dogmas of socialist realism but by Fluxus artists’ political happenings and actions, in particular by the extended concept of art that was being promulgated by Joseph Beuys. Against this backdrop, Richter began to take an interest in the question of how painting, with its age-old history, and despite all critique, might be continued in the present: how does one paint after the "death" of painting?

Already in the early 1960s Richter had used found image material, especially photographs and reproductions from newspapers and magazines, as models for his paintings... Image blur is an important element deployed by Richter to bring out the abstract qualities of the realistic motif."

Richter's art grapples with so many issues that have taken over life in the 20th and early 21st centuries: fusing photography with painting, he brings another world into being where it feels as if everything is just beyond reach.