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Berlin museum presents 100 works by artist Gerhard Richter

"Gerhard Richter. 100 Works for Berlin" shows for the first time the long-term loan from the artist's foundation. At the center of the exhibition is Richter's 2014 series "Birkenau," the result of the artist's decades-long engagement with Germany's Nazi past and the Holocaust.

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Richter's process of abstraction was based on his conviction that he could not do justice to the incomprehensible horror of the Holocaust with direct depiction. During the Holocaust, the Nazis and their henchmen murdered 6 million European Jews. In the gallery across from the Birkenau paintings is a large mirror which not only reflects the four works, but also visitors who thus become part of the installation.