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Museum Boymans-Van Beuningen [Published Date: 1989]. Catalog for exhibition held 15/10 - 3/12/ 89 at Museum Boymans-van Beuningen Rotterdam. Bi-lingual English and Dutch language. Paper covers, 166 pp. Contents include: Acknowledgements by Wim Crouwel; Foreword by Karel Schampers; Gerhard Richter by Anna Tilroe; A Note on Gerhard Richter's October 18, 1977 by Benjamin H.D. Buchlah; Catalogue (with 59 plates, several in full color), list of illustrations, Bibliography, Exhibitions.
In very good condition. Black and white illustrated paper covers with French flaps. Light bumping the edges of covers and light overall scuffing with a bit of the color scuffed off along edges and spine. Light crease to spine but binding is still nice and tight. Pages clean and unmarked. NOT Ex-Library. NO remainder marks. [Excerpt from Foreword] The paintings Gerhard Richter has selected for the exhibition in the Boymans-van Beuningen Museum, consist of three groups which despite their external differences, enjoy a meaningful interrelationship. The six 'grey' paintings from the years 1960-1976 are intended only as examples, as points of reference announcing the theme of the exhibition: the reduction to GREY. They are resigned paintings, self-denying as it were, each referring to nothing else but to itself. In sharp contrast are the fifteen 'Baader-Meinhof paintings of 1988-1989. In terms of painting they are similar to the photo-paintings of the sixties; concerning the contents, they differ from them radically. The earlier photo-paintings were mostly based on trivial amateur snapshots, or on photos of stereotyped situations and people in newspapers and advertising brochures; motives which, as Richter says, had little image' and a neutral quality. The Baader-Meinhof series, on the other hand, features a heavily loaded subject that calls not so much on individual as on collective memory. These paintings, for which he made use of press and police photographs, portray a compelling moment in recent German history: the last days of the Baader-Meinhof group. The series bears the title 18 October 1977. the day on which, Andreas Boader, Gudrun Ensslin and Jon-Carl Raspe, ¡n separate cells ¡n the Stammheim Prison, committed suicide simultaneously.