THE PASSIONATE ART & BEAUTY OF SHOWERS NOW

The German painter is heavily influenced by the late 20th century art movements, including Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, and Conceptualism.

To create his rain-shower inspired masterpieces, he often begins by projecting images onto his canvas, then painting his own reactions through the light and shadow.

Richter layers his paint, laying down strokes over strokes, in heavy impasto, then scraping and smearing, to produce a highly personal and emotional expression.

“I like everything that has no style: dictionaries, photographs, nature, myself and my paintings,” says Richter. No wonder the unpredictable nature and forms of rain showers are among Richter’s favorite subjects.

Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf in the late 1950’s and early 1960’s, when Germany was still reorganizing its East/West structures. It was a time of great learning and experimentation for him, although he was unhappy with many of his paintings – and subsequently destroyed most of them.

Later, in 1963, Richter began to explore the relationships between the photographic image and painting, and began to develop his iconic techniques of blurring.