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Gerhard Richter — Bonley-Landschaft (Bonley Landscape)
Gerhard Richter

Bonley-Landschaft (Bonley Landscape)

1970

This landscape painting exemplifies Gerhard Richter's photo painting practice, wherein the artist transforms photographic sources into large scale oil paintings through a process of deliberate blur and abstraction. The composition depicts a mountainous terrain shrouded in heavy mist and fog, rendered in a restrained palette of grays, lavenders, and deep blues that emphasize atmospheric conditions over topographical clarity. Richter's characteristic squeegee technique creates soft, diffused transitions between tones, dissolving the landscape into an almost abstract field of color. The resulting image hovers between representation and abstraction, inviting contemplation of perception, memory, and the camera's mediation of visual experience. The work reflects the artist's abiding interest in landscape as a subject capable of formal innovation while maintaining connection to observed reality.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Overall

Notes

David Zwirner, 'Landschaften', May 7 – July 10, 2026, 537 West 20th Street, New York. Curated survey of Gerhard Richter's landscape painting from 1965 to 2005.

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Gerhard Richter, Bonley-Landschaft (Bonley Landscape), 1970

This landscape painting exemplifies Gerhard Richter's photo painting practice, wherein the artist transforms photographic sources into large scale oil paintings through a process of deliberate blur and abstraction. The composition depicts a mountainous terrain shrouded in heavy mist and fog, rendered in a restrained palette of grays, lavenders, and deep blues that emphasize atmospheric conditions over topographical clarity. Richter's characteristic squeegee technique creates soft, diffused transitions between tones, dissolving the landscape into an almost abstract field of color. The resulting image hovers between representation and abstraction, inviting contemplation of perception, memory, and the camera's mediation of visual experience. The work reflects the artist's abiding interest in landscape as a subject capable of formal innovation while maintaining connection to observed reality.

Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
overall: 100 x 125.1 cm
Year
1970
Seen at
David Zwirner Gallery, Manhattan, United States

Related themes

Atmospheric Effect, Gray Tonality, Romantic Landscape, Conceptual Art, Photorealism, Perception And Reality, Modern Realism, Contemporary Landscape, Misty Mountains, Landscape Abstraction, Oil Painting, Meditative Mood, Minimalist Color, Monochromatic Study, Post Painterly, Blurred Abstraction, Photo Painting, Abstract Landscape

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Art Institute of Chicago, Sebastián Naranjo, Kyle Stewart, Alex Capecelatro, Brittany Laques