Bronze Sculpture for Sale
Portrait Heiner Friedrich,
1970
Gerhard Richter
Print : fine art print
60 x 50 x 3 cm 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch
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About the artwork
Type
Numbered and limited to 250 copies
Signature
Hand-signed by artist
Authenticity
Sold with certificate of Authenticity from the gallery
Invoice from the gallery
Medium
Dimensions cm • inch
60 x 50 x 3 cm 23.6 x 19.7 x 1.2 inch Height x Width x Depth
Support
Framing
Frame with plexiglass
Artwork dimensions including frame
65 x 55 x 4 cm 25.6 x 21.7 x 1.6 inch
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Artwork sold in perfect condition, framed, ready to hang
Artwork location: Switzerland
This rare four-colour print by Gerhard Richter presents a softly blurred portrait of Heiner Friedrich.
Hand-signed in pencil on the reverse by Gerhard Richter, with an official stamp reading: “Gerhard Richter – Heiner Friedrich (after a photograph by Birgit Polk).” The work is also numbered on the reverse. Both the signature and numbering are visible through a Plexiglas window on the back.
Worldwide shipping is available, with tax-friendly options for the USA and EU countries. Custom handmade framing can be arranged upon request. Each work is accompanied by a certificate of authenticity.
Based on a photograph by Birgit Polk, the image exemplifies Richter’s distinctive visual language, in which photographic source material is transformed through deliberate blurring, dissolving clear representation into a space between figuration and abstraction.
The face appears atmospheric and elusive, with subtle shifts of colour and tone creating a sense of psychological depth and temporal distance. This approach reflects Richter’s ongoing investigation into perception, memory, and the reliability of images, themes that have remained central throughout his oeuvre.
Printed on glossy Vélin paper, the work was published by Galerie Heiner Friedrich in Munich. As an example of Richter’s early engagement with photographic imagery, this print holds particular significance within his graphic production and is highly sought after by collectors of post-war and contemporary art.
Work is professionally framed in our own frame-shop, floated in a custom-cut, matching double acid-free passe-partout, in a bespoke, handcrafted wooden frame with PLEXIGLAS® Optical HC, scratch-resistant and UV-protected.
Size framed approx. 65 x 55 cm.
Collector’s Guide
Presentation
Gerhard Richter is a German artist born in Dresden on February 9, 1932. A very gifted child, but a poor student, he dropped out of Zittau secondary school and instead joined a vocational school, where he studied shorthand, accounting and Russian . In 1942 he was forced to join the Pimpfe section, an organization preparing children for the Hitler Youth, but was too young to be drafted into the army. After initial training as a painter, he obtained a master's degree from the Academy of Fine Arts in Dresden, a diploma which enabled him to benefit from a workshop for three years. Passionate about abstract painting, especially the works of Jackson Pollock and Lucio Fontana, he decided to move to the West in 1961. He finally settled in Düsseldorf where he was a pupil of Karl-Otto Götz and met Sigmar Polke and Blinky Palermo. Positioning himself both as an everyday photographer and a painter, Gerhard Richter reproduces the subjects of his photos on his canvases. Thus, landscapes, still lifes and intimate scenes complete a work moreover mainly made up of abstract works. In 1972, the press photos, his own photos and the amateur photographs he collected were brought together to form an atlas on display to the public. In addition to his personal exhibitions visible all over the world, he works as a teacher in several art schools and receives numerous awards including the Junger Western Art in Recklinghausen in 1967, the Arnold Bode prize at the Documenta in Cassel in 1981, the Oskar Kokoschka Prize in Vienna in 1985, the Wolf Prize for the Arts in Israel in 1994/95 and the Praemium Imperiale in Japan in 1997.
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