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In 1972 Richter represent ed Germany at the Venice Biennale. At Documenta in 1982 Richter was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize, and in 1985 in Vienna the Oskar Kokoschka Prize

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This, or similar, was used as the cover for Daydream Nation by New York art-rockers Sonic Youth.

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In 1972 Richter represent ed Germany at the Venice Biennale. At Documenta in 1982 Richter was awarded the Arnold Bode Prize, and in 1985 in Vienna the Oskar Kokoschka Prize

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Richter's "blurred" paintings are made by projecting photographs onto canvas and then tracing the image. Richter then paints to replicate the look of the original photo. These blurred paintings are close to reality but also have a nostalgic distance, like trying to remember the face of a person one hasn't seen for a while.

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Richter's first solo exhibition was held in Düsseldorf in 1963, and was the first showing of his photo-based painting style.

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During the early 1960s Richter met and began to work with artists such as Sigmar Polke and Georg Baselitz.

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Years later and a few months prior to the erection of the Berlin Wall, he and his wife fled with only a suitcase to Düsseldorf in West Germany. From 1961-64, Richter studied at the Staatliche Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under Karl Otto Gotz.

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Encouraged by his mother, he enrolled at the Dresden Art Academy in Communist East Germany.

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Like many Germans of his generation, his relatives were involved in the Nazi movement, and rigorous ideology and death have haunted him since he was a child.

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Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, Germany