ART CITIES:Zurich-Gerhard Richter, Part II
No genre has fascinated Gerhard Richter so consistently throughout his career as that of landscape. Ever since 1968-69, the artist has revisited and reprised its possibilities, creating black-and-white townscapes based on newspaper picture and amateur photographs, mountain and park scenes with heavy impasto, illusionistic seascapes in subtly gradated tones and …