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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Benjamin Katz – Gerhard Richter at Work
| Editor | Dietmar Elger |
| Publisher | Hirmer |
| Year | 2012 |
| Cover | Hardcover |
| Language | English, French, German |
| ISBN | 978-3-7774-5311-8 |
| Pages | 144 |
| Weight | 1092 g |
| More | |
| Contributors | Wilfried Wiegand, Paul Moorhouse, Stephan von Wiese |
| Article ID | art-79982 |
Gerhard Richter is among the most prominent painters of the 20th and 21st centuries, with a career spanning almost 60 years. Beyond his monumental abstract and photo-realistic works, his working method, artistic processes and philosophy are less well known. The Belgian photographer Benjamin Katz captures the notoriously camera-shy artist at work.
Using a pair of compact Leicas, Katz produced and hand-developed eighty black and white portraits of Richter painting, sketching and mentally processing his work. These candid photographs reflect genuine moments in the life of his subject, encompassing humour, melancholy and love.
