Gerhard Richter (The South Bank Show)

"Gerhard Richter" is an art documentary episode which was broadcast on 2 February 2003, based on the life of a German visual artist Gerhard Richter on The South Bank Show. The documentary was a production of LWT for the ITV series. It was directed and produced by Gerald Fox, introduced by Melvyn Bragg, and featured Gerhard Richter.

Cast

 * Melvyn Bragg - Presenter
 * Gerhard Richter - Interviewee

Production
Richter talks about how he grew up in East Germany where he attended Dresden's art school  and escaped to the other side just before the Berlin Wall was built   in this documentary. His entire artistic career is told in the documentary "Gerhardt Richter" made around the time of his enormously successful American retrospective at MOMA and SFMOMA  entitled "40 Years of Paintings." The movie follows the artist at his house in Cologne, where he is undergoing a period of reflection and preparation before moving on to another series of paintings.