Porträt Liz Kertelge

Gerhard Richter (born in 1932) is considered one of the most important artists alive today. His work has radically questioned the fundamental principles of painting in a quite unprecedented manner and, at the same time, has opened up undreamt-of possibilities for a genre that many had declared dead: "The objective – to invent nothing, not a single idea, composition, theme, shape – and yet to maintain everything – composition, theme, shape, idea, picture," is how Richter himself describes his seemingly paradox attempt to produce the kind of painting that attempts to escape the subjectivity of the artist at all levels. The sheer diversity of his art, which makes a mockery of the classic term "style" and is quite unsettling in reach, has as its common denominator his rejection of the artist's creative subject, something to be encountered in all his work groups. Richter created various painting pictures from black-and-white photographs during the 1960s and early 1970s, basing them on a variety of sources: newspapers and books, sometimes incorporating their captions, private snapshots, aerial views of towns and mountains. Lis Kertelge is a German actress, radio play and voice actress. I love it.