Wenn wer dt. Meister oder wer wird deutscher Meister. 1999.
Spray paint, lacquer and Oil on canvas.
Signed, dated and titled as well as with a small sketch on the reverse. 220 x 180 cm (86.6 x 70.8 in).
[KT].

• One of only four black-and-white paintings in the artist's oeuvre.
• A large-format work from Richter's abstract creative phase, through which he established himself in the front ranks of contemporary German painters in the 1990s.
• Made in the context of his first participation in an exhibition in the USA.
• Richter's works are part of important collections such as the Museum of Modern Art, New York, the Musée National d'Art moderne/Centre Georges-Pompidou, Paris, and the Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main.

PROVENANCE: Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin (with two labels and several stamps).
Private collection (acquired from tthe above in 1999).

EXHIBITION: Scorpio Rising, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, April 13 - May 8, 1999.
Mozart on Television: New Painting from Germany, Deitch Projects, New York, June 1 - August 6, 1999.
Daniel Richter: A major survey, Denver Art Museum, Denver, October 4 - January 11, 2008.

LITERATURE: Eva Meyer-Hermann (ed.), Daniel Richter - Bilder von früh bis heute, Berlin 2023, p. 74 (illustrated on p. 78).