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Bach 1-4
© Gerhard Richter/Bildupphovsrätt 2024
Bach 1-4
Bach 1-4
Photo: Albin Dahlström/Moderna Museet

Bach 1-4

by Gerhard Richter
Artist (Tyskland, född 1932)
Date1992
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsBildmått (för varje del): 300 × 300 × 3,5 cm
ClassificationPaintings
Credit LinePurchase 1994 with contribution from The Friends of Moderna Museet
Countries
Germany
Object NumberMOM 769:A-D
CollectionsModerna Museets Vänner
The artwork is not on display
About the artworkThe "Bach" Suite consists of four visually forceful, gigantic squares with shimmering, clear colours applied with a knife in a layer-on-layer technique. The removed layers leave traces and appear like ragged paint sections. Gerhard Richter had a major breakthrough in the mid-1960s, with his unfocused "photo paintings", based on ordinary newspaper pictures or family snapshots. Over the years, he has alternated between still-lifes, landscapes, portraits and abstract painting. This has occasioned postmodernist thinkers to refer to his works as "a memory of painting in the past" - but also to the rootlessness and feelings of loss that characterise our time.
 Selected exhibition history Moderna Museets samling i ny presentation (1998-2000) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Ny presentation av samlingen (2000-2002) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Samlingsutställning 2004 - 2011 - I vår tid (2004 - 2011) Moderna Museet, Stockholm Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall (2003) Malmö Konsthall Samlingsutställning 2019-2022 (den 1 februari 2019 - den 27 augusti 2023) Moderna Museet, Stockholm The Moderna Museet exhibition catalogues Moderna Museet c/o Malmö Konsthall : [Malmö Konsthall : 8 februari - 4 maj 2003]Gerhard Richter : [Moderna Museet, Stockholm : 12 mars - 8 maj 1994]