Gerhard Richter: Early Work, 1951-1972

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Edited by Christine Mehring, Jeanne Anne Nugent, and Jon L. Seydl Born in Dresden in 1932, Gerhard Richter was first educated under the prevailing doctrine of Socialist Realism and retrained after emigrating to West Germany, thus uniquely embodying the division of Germany during the Cold War. This volume brings together new studies of his early career by an international group of scholars. The authors approach the context from a variety of angles including the social and political histories of a divided…