Painting

Eine Besucherin der Ausstellung `Gerhard Richter. Bilder aus privaten Sammlungen´ im Museum Frieder Burda in Baden-Baden betrachtet das Gemälde `Schädel mit Kerze´ (1983). Cop: picture-alliance/ dpa

German Painting in the Last Quarter of the 20th Century

The 20th century was marked by regularly recurrent claims about the ‘death of painting’. Yet more pictures were painted in this century than ever before in history.More ...

Neo Rauch: ‘For Me, Painting Means the Continuation of Dreaming by other Means’

The Leipzig painter Neo Rauch (born in 1960) is one of the most successful German painters of the middle generation. His success in recent years has been meteoric. Especially abroad he has attracted a good deal of attention.More ...
A photo of Jonathan Meese by Peter Hönnemann; Copyright: Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg

The Ego As Material – Jonathan Meese

Jonathan Meese’s art is a reflection of that gaudy arrangement into which society, entertainment industry and art have entered.More ...
Gerhard Richter, Cage (2), 2006, 300 x 300 cm, private collection, © Gerhard Richter

Orchestrating Randomness – Gerhard Richter and his Abstract Paintings

An exhibition focuses exclusively on those paintings among Gerhard Richter’s works that permit of no one, particular interpretation – his abstract paintings.More ...

Visual Arts Guide

The list of annotated links on the plastic arts facilitates research across the entire spectrum of these art forms.