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Theresa Manzke\u2019s art teacher must have been an inspirational influence, because it was her admiration for Gerhard Richter that first brought the now 22-year-old from Marktredwitz in Bavaria to Dresden. When the time came to decide on a topic for her in-depth study at Abitur level, Theresa plumped for Gerhard Richter. In combination with Jan Vermeer van Delft, another major figure in the history of art.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Albertinum houses the Galery “Neue Meister” and the sculpture collection of the Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden \u00a9 Frank Ex\u00df<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Each of these two visual artists has produced his own portrait in profile of a female lost in contemplation of the written word. Vermeer painted Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window sometime between 1657 and 1659, and Richter his Lesende (Reading) in 1994. The compositional similarity strongly suggests that the later artist must have known the work of the former.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Theresa soon identified Dresden as the most likely place for this acquaintance to have come about, as the Vermeer portrait hangs among the 17th-century Dutch and Flemish paintings in the Old Masters Gallery, while Richter has two permanent exhibition rooms in the New Masters Gallery in the Albertinum. So it was clearly not a coincidence. Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 and studied mural painting at the Academy of Fine Arts Dresden on Br\u00fchl\u2019s Terrace in the 1950s. He saw for himself how the concept of art favoured and promoted by the GDR regime conformed to the narrow formula of Socialist Realism. Richter perfectly mastered the politically approved forms \u2013 there is a mural by him in the foyer of the German Hygiene Museum, albeit now covered by a coat of plain white paint. However, he has no wish for it to see the light of day, as he does not accept it as a work of art, given the constraints under which it was created. As an artist working in the GDR, he found the conditions oppressive. In 1961, after attending documenta II in Kassel, he finally decided to leave the cultural dead-end that was the GDR and to further his career in West Germany where there would be no such constraints or compromises.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atrium of the Albertinum\u00a9 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden \/ HC Krass<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Gerhard Richter was eventually persuaded to return to Dresden by Martin Roth, the former General Director of the Dresden State Art Collections (SKD) who died in August 2017. In 2002, after the Elbe breached its banks and flooded the store rooms in the basement of the Albertinum, Roth launched an appeal to fund new flood-proof storage facilities in the building. Richter was the first to donate a painting: Der Fels (The Rock) fetched 2.6 million euros. Two years later, Roth offered the artist two rooms in the Galerie Neue Meister \u2013 a considerable honour considering the restrictions on space at the Albertinum. Ever since, Richter\u2019s works have rounded off the grand tour which begins with the Casper David Friedrich room.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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\u00a9 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAfter the Museum Ludwig in Cologne and the Neues Museum N\u00fcrnberg, we have here the third largest permanent exhibition of Gerhard Richter\u2019s works,\u201d says Kerstin K\u00fcster of the Gerhard Richter Archive, an institution which also goes back to Martin Roth\u2019s initiative. \u201cHe wanted to reconnect Richter with Dresden. The main argument he presented was that the SKD could provide custodianship for Richter\u2019s artistic archive by means of catalogues, posters, invitation cards, newspaper supplements, correspondence, CDs, DVDs, videos. We even have Christmas calendars, maths books and children\u2019s books with Richter motifs.\u201d Some rather unusual Richter memorabilia will be going on display during the Open Day on 12th December 2017<\/a>. On a more day-to-day basis, the archive provides researchers with access to rare catalogues from the 1970s.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The Gerhard Richter archive \u00a9 Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

As director of the archive, Gerhard Richter appointed Dietmar Elger, who had worked as secretary in his studio for many years. Nobody is as familiar with Richter\u2019s modus operandi as Elger, and nobody else can immediately pinpoint the whereabouts of all his pictures. His value as a fount of all knowledge is not to be underestimated, because not all private collectors wish their ownership to be in the public domain. One of the main tasks of the archive is to act as an intermediary for exhibitions, bringing together lenders and curators, or suggesting alternatives when a work is not available. Kerstin K\u00fcster explains: \u201cFor example, it would have been a perfect match for Marlene Dumas\u2019s current Skulls exhibition at the Albertinum if we could have displayed a painting from Richter\u2019s own Sch\u00e4del (Skulls) series.\u201d The collaboration between the archive and the New Masters Gallery is close and facilitated by the shared premises. In this case, however, Richter\u2019s Sch\u00e4del are currently on display as part of The Life of Images exhibition in Brisbane, so the archive sourced the artist\u2019s 48 Portr\u00e4ts for the Albertinum \u2013 an equally inspired companion series to Dumas\u2019s watercolour portraits.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When Theresa Manzke visited the Richter archive as part of the research for her special study paper, she became captivated by Dresden. Now she is finishing her studies at the Dresden University of Technology. But even though her stay here may soon be coming to an end, she will always associate the name of Gerhard Richter with Dresden.
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