# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gerhard-richter
# Generated: 2026-09-01T09:19:57.272Z

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name: "Gerhard Richter"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in 1932 in Germany, Gerhard Richter built a practice that refuses a single style: photorealistic paintings sit beside abstractions, photographs beside glass pieces. The range itself became the signature. His work began commanding record prices at auction, and for a time he held the title of most expensive living painter. Critics reached for comparisons—"Picasso of the 21st century," "the world's most important artist"—labels he neither courted nor deflected. He remains, at over ninety, one of contemporary Germany's most significant visual artists, still producing in a career that has spanned more than six decades.