Atlas van de foto's en schetsen
Gerhard Richter
1972
Atlas van de foto's en schetsen
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Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first ...
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Atlas van de foto's en schetsen
Gerhard Richter
1972
Utrecht: Hedendaagse Kunst
Unpaginated [144 pages]
20.7 × 14.2 cm

Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first version of his seminal Atlas, Richter gathered 339 images, accompanied by a short, untitled contribution by Wouter Kotte on the back cover, for an exhibition held in Utrecht in 1972.


 


The artist began mounting parts of his extensive collection of pictorial material on cardboard in the early 1960s, seeking to bring order and clarity to an archive comprising photographs, drawings, construction plans, newspaper clippings, sketches, room designs, collages, overpainted photographs, and drafts for paintings. Rather than following a chronological structure, Richter organized the material according to iconographical and typological affinities. The Atlas has been continually modified and expanded over the decades, with its collection of motifs growing to encompass 5000 individual images from a variety of source material. For the 1972 exhibition, Richter presented approximately 340 sheets from the compendium, some of which he subsequently excluded from the Atlas.


 


The most comprehensive iteration of this fifty-year archival project was published by Walther König in 2016 as a four-volume, slipcased, linen-bound limited edition, also held in the Metabooks collection.

Utrecht: Hedendaagse Kunst
Unpaginated [144 pages]
20.7 × 14.2 cm

Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first version of his seminal Atlas, Richter gathered 339 images, accompanied by a short, untitled contribution by Wouter Kotte on the back cover, for an exhibition held in Utrecht in 1972.

 

The artist began mounting parts of his extensive collection of pictorial material on cardboard in the early 1960s, seeking to bring order and clarity to an archive comprising photographs, drawings, construction plans, newspaper clippings, sketches, room designs, collages, overpainted photographs, and drafts for paintings. Rather than following a chronological structure, Richter organized the material according to iconographical and typological affinities. The Atlas has been continually modified and expanded over the decades, with its collection of motifs growing to encompass 5000 individual images from a variety of source material. For the 1972 exhibition, Richter presented approximately 340 sheets from the compendium, some of which he subsequently excluded from the Atlas.

 

The most comprehensive iteration of this fifty-year archival project was published by Walther König in 2016 as a four-volume, slipcased, linen-bound limited edition, also held in the Metabooks collection.

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Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first version of his seminal Atlas, Richter gathered 339 images, accompanied by a short, untitled contribution by Wouter Kotte on the back cover, for an exhibition held in Utrecht in 1972.

 

The artist began mounting parts of his extensive collection of pictorial material on cardboard in the early 1960s, seeking to bring order and clarity to an archive comprising photographs, drawings, construction plans, newspaper clippings, sketches, room designs, collages, overpainted photographs, and drafts for paintings. Rather than following a chronological structure, Richter organized the material according to iconographical and typological affinities. The Atlas has been continually modified and expanded over the decades, with its collection of motifs growing to encompass 5000 individual images from a variety of source material. For the 1972 exhibition, Richter presented approximately 340 sheets from the compendium, some of which he subsequently excluded from the Atlas.

 

The most comprehensive iteration of this fifty-year archival project was published by Walther König in 2016 as a four-volume, slipcased, linen-bound limited edition, also held in the Metabooks collection.

Utrecht: Hedendaagse Kunst
Unpaginated [144 pages]
20.7 × 14.2 cm

Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first version of his seminal Atlas, Richter gathered 339 images, accompanied by a short, untitled contribution by Wouter Kotte on the back cover, for an exhibition held in Utrecht in 1972.

 

The artist began mounting parts of his extensive collection of pictorial material on cardboard in the early 1960s, seeking to bring order and clarity to an archive comprising photographs, drawings, construction plans, newspaper clippings, sketches, room designs, collages, overpainted photographs, and drafts for paintings. Rather than following a chronological structure, Richter organized the material according to iconographical and typological affinities. The Atlas has been continually modified and expanded over the decades, with its collection of motifs growing to encompass 5000 individual images from a variety of source material. For the 1972 exhibition, Richter presented approximately 340 sheets from the compendium, some of which he subsequently excluded from the Atlas.

 

The most comprehensive iteration of this fifty-year archival project was published by Walther König in 2016 as a four-volume, slipcased, linen-bound limited edition, also held in the Metabooks collection.

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Together with Hans-Peter Feldmann’s Bilder and Batia Suter’s Parallel Encyclopedia, Gerhard Richter’s Atlas represents one of the most remarkable collections of images organized through associative affinities since Aby Warburg’s seminal Mnemosyne Atlas. In this first version of his seminal Atlas, Richter gathered 339 images, accompanied by a short, untitled contribution by Wouter Kotte on the back cover, for an exhibition held in Utrecht in 1972.

 

The artist began mounting parts of his extensive collection of pictorial material on cardboard in the early 1960s, seeking to bring order and clarity to an archive comprising photographs, drawings, construction plans, newspaper clippings, sketches, room designs, collages, overpainted photographs, and drafts for paintings. Rather than following a chronological structure, Richter organized the material according to iconographical and typological affinities. The Atlas has been continually modified and expanded over the decades, with its collection of motifs growing to encompass 5000 individual images from a variety of source material. For the 1972 exhibition, Richter presented approximately 340 sheets from the compendium, some of which he subsequently excluded from the Atlas.

 

The most comprehensive iteration of this fifty-year archival project was published by Walther König in 2016 as a four-volume, slipcased, linen-bound limited edition, also held in the Metabooks collection.

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