Gerhard Richter born 9 February 1932 is a German visual artist and one of the pioneers of the New European Painting that has emerged in the second half of the twentieth century. Richter has produced abstract as well as photorealistic paintings, and also photographs and glass pieces. His art follows the examples of Picasso and Jean Arp in undermining the concept of the artist's obligation to maintain a single cohesive style. In October 2012, Richter's Abstraktes Bild set an auction record price for a painting by a living artist at 34 million dollars.This was exceeded in May 2013 when his 1968 piece Domplatz, Mailand (Cathedral square, Milan) was sold for $37.1 million dollars in New York. In 1983, Richter resettled from Düsseldorf to Cologne, where he still lives and works today. In the early days of his career, he prepared a wall painting Communion with Picasso, 1955 for the refectory of his Academy of Arts. In 1996, he moved into a studio designed by architect Thiess Marwede. Richter married Marianne Eufinger in 1957 she gave birth to his first daughter. He married his second wife, the sculptor Isa Genzken, in 1982. Richter had a son and daughter with his third wife, Sabine Moritz after they were married in 1995.
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