Gerhard Richter

1932 Born in Dresden, Germany
1952 - 1957 Studied at the Dresden Art Academy
1961 - 1963 Studied at the Dusseldorf Art Academy under KO Gotz
1967 Art prize Junger Westen of the city of Recklinghausen
1981 Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel
1985 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna
1988 Kaiserring of the city of Goslar
1995 Wolf Prize in Arts, Jerusalem
1997 Golden Lion of the 47th Biennale in Venice
1997 Premium Imperial Prize, Tokyo
1998 Wexner Prize, Columbus, Ohio
2000 Staatspreis of the State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
2001 Doctoris honoris causa of the Universitecatholique de Louvain-la-Neuve ,Belgium

solo shows(selected)

2005
Gerhard Richter - Marian Goodman, New York, NY (solo)

2004
Gerhard Richter - Moving Energies. Essen, Museum Folkwang (solo)
Gerhard Richter - Landscapes. Zwirner Wirth. New York, NY (solo)

2003
Gerhard Richter, Atlas. Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (solo)

2002 - 2003
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY (solo)
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL (solo)
Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA (solo)
Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington (solo)

2002
Gerhard Richter - Acht Grau. Deutsche Guggenheim. Berlin, Germany (solo)
Venice Biennale

1997
Venice Biennale
Documenta 5-10. Kassel, Germany

1993 - 1994
Retrospective. Paris, Bonn, Stockholm and Madrid (solo)

1988
Retrospective. Chicago, Toronto, Washington and San Francisco (solo)

1986
Retrospective. Dusseldorf, Berlin and Vienna (solo)

1972
48 Portraits. Venice Biennale
Documenta 5-10. Kassel, Germany

1963
Demonstration fur den Kapitalistischen Realismus, with KonradLueg and Sigmar Polke. Dusseldorf, Germany