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Gerhard Richter based this painting on a 1978 photograph of his 11-year-old daughter. Betty turns away from the viewer, possibly toward one of Richter’s own monochrome paintings. Richter fled East Germany in 1961 at age 29 and moved to Düsseldorf just before the Berlin Wall was erected.
31 de mar. de 2024 · An unconventional portrait where the sitter looks away. The striking colors and flawless technique. A photo or a painting? Let’s dive into the astonishing portrait of Betty by Gerhard Richter.
23 de set. de 2014 · Gerhard Richter has been widely regarded as a publicity shy artist. However, the biography Gerhard Richter. A Life in Painting gives an insight into Richter’s personal history as well as into the development of his artistic œuvre.
20 de nov. de 2019 · Gerhard Richter’s “Betty” is arguably the most famous painting by the most influential artist alive Gerhard Richter, “Betty,” 1988. On view at the St. Louis Art Museum.
‘Betty’ is one of the best-known subjects in Gerhard Richter’s oeuvre. The portrait of his daughter is not directed towards the viewer, for she has turned round to gaze at the background, where one of Richter’s grey paintings of the 1970s seems to be on display.
Betty and 18. Oktober, 1977 are beautiful—ravishing—and that shouldn’t be ignored or glossed. But their lesson seems brutal: the quality of being, in relation to the world and to others, is equivocal and obscure.
Artist: Gerhard Richter (German, born Dresden, 1932) Date: 1977. Medium: Oil on wood. Dimensions: 11 13/16 × 15 3/4 in. (30 × 40 cm) Classification: Paintings. Credit Line: Museum Ludwig, Cologne. Loan from private collection, 2007.
