GERHARD RICHTER Gerhard Richter was born February 9, 1932 in Dresden. Richter is one of the most important German artists of the post-World War II period and is also one of the world's most expensive, with his paintings often selling for several million dollars a piece. Richter had his first solo show, Gerhard Richter, in 1964 at Galerie Schmela in Düsseldorf. Soon after, he had exhibitions in Munich and Berlin and by the early 1970s exhibited frequently throughout Europe and the United States. His fourth retrospective, Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting, curated by Robert Storr, opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art in February 2002, then traveled to Chicago, San Francisco, and Washington, DC. The Gerhard Richter Archive was established in cooperation with the artist in 2005 as an institute of the State Art Collections in Dresden, Germany. More: www.gerhard-richter-archiv.de