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December 12, 2011
Between 1968 and 1970 Gerhard Richter produced nearly fifty cityscapes, which were based on photographic source images taken from architecture magazines. The source images were mainly aerial photographs of cities, but also included photographs of architectural models.
Gerhard Richter, Stadbilt Paris, 1968, oil on canvas.
Though it is difficult at first to decipher the subject matter of this ambiguous image the composition reveals itself to be an overhead perspective of an identifiably Parisian quartier in ruins after a saturation bombardment. This vista is purely fictive.
These photo-paintings recall the aerial photographs of post-war bombed-out cities in Germany
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