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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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"I think that is what makes this work so central and so intense, that you as a visitor are really questioned about your responsibility during the time of Nazis and your position on the Holocaust," said Maike Steinkamp, the curator of the exhibition. "Richter doesn't give us an analysis, but allows us as viewers to form our own opinion," Steinkamp added. Richter, who is 91, lives in the western city of Cologne. His oeuvre spans six decades in which he has repeatedly explored the possibilities and limits of painting as well as the tension between abstraction and figuration.