Gerhard Richter:Panorama - Tate Modern

Gerhard Richter was born in 1932 in Dresden, a city that was suffered terribly from allied bombing near the end of Second World War and became part of Communist East Germany. He crossed over to West Germany in 1961, settling in Dusseldorf before moving to Cologne in 1983 where he still lives and works.

This major exhibition (13 rooms) features a wide range of work from the whole of Richter's career including realist paintings based on photographs, abstracts, portraits, landscapes and history paintings ranging from paintings he did in the 1960's of bombers that looked back to the aerial bombardments of WW2 to a painting he did in 2005 based on a photograph of the attack on the World Trade Center which at first sight looks to be an abstract but after a short while the twin towers can be discerned along with the earie beauty of the picture.

I can't recommend this exhibition highly enough, do yourself a favour and go and see it if you possibly can.