1932 Born: Dresden, Germany
1952 – 1957 Studied at the Dresden Art Academy, Dresden, Germany
1961 - 1963 Studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy under KO Gotz, Düsseldorf, Germany
1967 Art prize "Junger Westen" of the city of Recklinghausen, Germany
1981 Arnold Bode Prize, Kassel, Germany
1985 Oskar Kokoschka Prize, Vienna, Austria
1988 Kaiserring of the city of Goslar, Germany
1971 - 1993 Taught at the Staatliche Kunstakademie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Wolf Prize in Arts, Jerusalem, Israel
1997 Golden Lion of the 47th Biennale in Venice, Venice, Italy
1997 Premium Imperial Prize, Tokyo, Japan
1998 Wexner Prize, Columbus, OH
2000 Staatspreis of the State Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 Doctoris honoris causa of the Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Lives and works in Cologne, Germany
Selected Exhibitions:
2009 - 2010 Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009 Gerhard Richter. Survey, Museo de Artes Visuales (MAVI), Santiago, Chile; Museo Nacional de Arte, La Paz, Bolivia (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Modern Times (Artist Rooms), Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art (mima), Middlesbrough, UK (solo)
St. Moritz Art Masters. Gerhard Richter, Paracelsus Building, St. Moritz, Switzerland (solo)
Wege in der Gegenwart. Gerhard Richter, Kunsthaus Villa Jauss, Oberstdorf, Germany (solo)
Double. 2 Seascapes, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
PhotoEspaña. Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs, Fundación Telefónica, Madrid, Spain; Centre de la photographie, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Paintings From Private Collections, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany (solo)
Richter en France, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Abstract Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Portraits, National Portrait Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Retrospektive, Albertina, Vienna, Austria, 2009 (solo)
2008 - 2009 Gerhard Richter. Paintings from Private Collections, Royal Scottish Academy Building, National Gallery Complex, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Abstrakte Bilder, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Gerhard Richter. 48 Portraits, De Pont Museum voor hedendaagse kunst, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
2008 Gerhard Richter, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia (solo)
Gerhard Richter, Museum De Pont, Tilburg, The Netherlands (solo)
Gerhard Richter. 4900 Colours, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Prints of Gerhard Richter, Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, AL (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Paintings 1963 - 2007, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Panorama, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Belgium (solo)
2007 Gerhard Richter, Art Gallery of Uzbekistan, Taschkent, Uzbekistan
Gerhard Richter: 30 years of editions, Kunsthandel Jorg MaaB, Berlin, German
Gerhard Richter. Survey, Gallery of Fine Arts, Osijek, Croatia; Croatian Artists Centre, Zagreb, Croatia; Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland; Georgian National Museum, Tbilisi, Georgia (solo)
2006 Gerhard Richter, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
Zeitschnitt, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
Gerhard Richter. Survey, Museum of Russian Art, Kiev, Ukraine; National Centre of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russian Federation; The State Museum of City Sculpture, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation; Kaliningrad State Art Gallery, Kaliningrad, Russian Federation (solo)
Gerhard Richter. sichtweise-schichtweise, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Portraits, Museumsberg Flensburg, Flensburg, Germany
Gerhard Richter, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Gerhard Richter, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea (solo)
2005 Gerhard Richter, Marian Goodman, New York, NY (solo)
Works on paper, Mike Karstens, Münster, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey, Laznia Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk, Poland (solo)
Gerhard Richter. New Works, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Painting as Mirror, Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Japan; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan (solo)
Gerhard Richter, Cuxhavener Kunstverein, Cuxhaven, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Strontium, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA (solo)
Gerhard Richter. 2.5.89-7.5.89. Sechs Fotos, Corkin Shopland Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
2004 Gerhard Richter, Moving Energies, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter - Landscapes, Zwirner & Wirth. New York, NY (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Printed!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Switzerland; Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey, Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (solo)
Gerhard Richter, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey, National Art Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam; Creation Art Gallery, Beijing, China; Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran (solo)
2003 Gerhard Richter, Atlas, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey, Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, South Korea; Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Gerhard Richter. 40 Years of Painting, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (solo)
Richter 858, an Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA), San Francisco, CA (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, D.C. (solo)
Gerhard Richter. 10th Anniversary 2002, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
2002 Gerhard Richter - Acht Grau, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Gerhard Richter. Übermalungen, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany (solo)
2001 Gerhard Richter, Arbeiten aus vier Jahrzehnten,Deutsche Bank Luxembourg S.A., Luxembourg (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey, National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Paintings 1996 - 2001, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000 Gerhard Richter. Selected Prints 1966 - 1988, Bernd Lutze Gallery, Friedrichshafen, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Survey. Editions 1967- 2000, Kunstverein Bergisch Gladbach, Krypta 182, Bergisch Gladbach, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Janus,Galerie Lucas Schoormans, New York, NY (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Overpainted Photographs, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany (solo)
1999 Gerhard Richter. Retrospective, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy(solo)
Gerhard Richter. The Complete Editions, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Zeichnungen und Aquarelle 1964-1999, Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Atlas, Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Gerhard Richter, 20.21 Gallery, Essen, Germany (solo)
1998 Gerhard Richter. Watercolors, Drawings and Photographs, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY(solo)
Gerhard Richter. Landscapes, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. New Paintings, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
1997 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Documenta 5-10, Kassel, Germany
Gerhard Richter, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Multiples 1965-97, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (solo)
1996 Gerhard Richter. 100 Pictures, Carré d'Art, Museé d' Art Contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Paintings, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Province of Bolzano, Italy (solo)
1995 Gerhard Richter. Editions 1965 - 1993, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Sculpture, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Selected Works 1963 - 1987, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY (solo)
1994 Gerhard Richter. Retrospective, Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (solo)
Gerhard Richter and Romanticism, Kunstverein Ruhr, Essen, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Prints and Multiples 1966 - 1993, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1993 - 1994 Gerhard Richter. Editions, Löhrl Gallery, Mönchengladbach, Germany (solo)<BR˃GERHARD span (solo)< Germany Bonn, Deutschland, Bundesrepublik der Ausstellungshalle und Kunst- Retrospective, Richter.>
1993 Gerhard Richter. Paintings and Works on Paper, Fred Jahn Gallery, Munich, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Works on Paper, Stadtmuseum, Quakenbrück, Germany (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Retrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (solo)
1992 - 1993 Gerhard Richter. Watercolors, Photographs and Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1992 Gerhard Richter. Works on Paper, Goethe Institute, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. Early Prints, Bernd Slutzky Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (solo)
1991 Gerhard Richter. Mirrors, Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Gerhard Richter. October 18, 1977, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (solo)
1972 48 Portraits, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Documenta 5-10, Kassel, Germany
1963 Demonstration für den Kapitalistischen Realismus, Düsseldorf, Germany