"Painting is traditional but for me that doesn't mean the academy. I felt a need to paint; I love painting. It was something natural – as is listening to music or playing an instrument for some people. For this reason I searched for themes of my era and my generation. Photography offered this, so I chose it as a medium for painting".

Some of Gerhard Richter's Overpainted Photographs

Kölner Dom/Cologne Cathedral, 1989, 15 cm x 10 cm, oil on photograph

Dreifaches Selbstportrait/Self Portrait three times, 1990, 50 cm x 60 cm, oil on photograph

Ohne Titel/Untitled, 1989, 10.5 cm x 14.8 cm, oil on photograph