The Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden (SKD) are showing the birthday exhibition by and for the German painter Gerhard Richter. The Dresden native conceived it a long time ago and thus made it a gift to himself, according to the head of the Gerhard Richter Archive, Dietmar Elger. “Gerhard Richter. portraits Glass. Abstractions” include central themes of his work, said SKD General Director Marion Ackermann: “It is a very precise, but also modest exhibition.”
Until May 1st, 40 works are gathered in three rooms, from Richter’s possession, his art foundation and private collections as well as loans from the Museum of Modern Art (MoMa) New York, the Albertina Vienna, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Museum Ludwig Cologne.
Richter gathered his family around the 1996 self-portrait from MoMa: portraits of the daughters Betty and Ella and the sons Moritz and Theo as well as the series “S. with child”. There are also landscape pictures, “some of which have a very personal and very emotional background,” said Elger.
