Documentary by Corinna Belz. In German and English with subtitles. (Not rated. 97 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.) Corinna Belz's documentary "Gerhard Richter Painting" delivers on the promise of its ...

German painter Gerhard Richter feels at times like half-a-dozen artists rolled into one. In his figurative work, he ranges from near-photorealism to a kind of “distortionism” in which photograph-based ...

Corinna Belz’s documentary “Gerhard Richter Painting” delivers on the promise of its title. It shows us the world’s most famous living painter, who turned 80 in February, at work with greater intimacy ...

Germany’s minister of the interior Thomas de Maizière pulled out a photo of a Gerhard Richter painting during a speech on Monday to illustrate Germany’s “obsessive preoccupation with its past.” ...

Iranian super-collectors Eskandar and Fatima Maleki have put the work up for auction at Sotheby's in their February 10 evening sale, and the prediction is that Mr. Richter could break his own record ...

At 80, most artists–especially those who have achieved such astounding critical success–might consider slowing down and enjoying it. But Richter, who is known for his intellectual curiosity and ...

An art film in the literal sense, German helmer Corinna Belz's intelligently assembled observational docu "Gerhard Richter Painting" offers fascinating insight into the working process of the famed ...

Corinna Belz's documentary on the world's greatest painter, Gerhard Richter, will . The film, titled will screen at 7 pm on April 6 and 4:30 pm and 7 pm on April 7. The film traces the rather ...

“The problem is now that all of nature, everything, is captured in photographs, so there is nothing to paint. This, for me, puts some fantasy back into it.” These words were uttered recently by ...

Gerhard Richter’s “Cage” suite of large paintings, commissioned for the 2007 Venice Biennale, are almost scenographic in sweep. The epic paintings are unabashedly theatrical, aggressively setting the ...

Gerhard Richter Painting, a new documentary on the 80-year-old German artist Gerhard Richter, takes us right into his Cologne studio. Devoting most of its screen time to the artist at work, the ...