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Schweizer Alpen I - B1 - Signed Print by Gerhard Richter 1969 - MyArtBroker

Schweizer Alpen I - B1
Signed Print

Gerhard Richter

£18,000-£28,000Value Indicator

$35,000-$60,000 Value Indicator

$30,000-$50,000 Value Indicator

¥160,000-¥250,000 Value Indicator

21,000-35,000 Value Indicator

$170,000-$270,000 Value Indicator

¥3,500,000-¥5,450,000 Value Indicator

$22,000-$35,000 Value Indicator

23% AAGR

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Medium: Screenprint

Edition size: 300

Year: 1969

Size: H 70cm x W 69cm

Signed: Yes

Format: Signed Print

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The value of Gerhard Richter's Schweizer Alpen I - B1 (signed) is estimated to be worth between £18,000 and £28,000. This screenprint, created in 1969, has shown consistent value growth, with an average annual growth rate of 23%. This is a popular work, having been sold 9 times at auction since its entry to the market in March 2005. In the last 12 months, the average selling price was £20,120, across a total of 1 sale. The hammer price in the last five years has ranged from £10,992 in June 2020 to £20,120 in September 2024. The edition size of this artwork is limited to 300.

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Auction Results

Auction DateAuction HouseLocation
Hammer Price
Return to Seller
Buyer Paid
September 2024Venator & Hanstein Germany
June 2023Van Ham Fine Art Auctions Germany
June 2020Germann Auctions Switzerland
June 2019Ketterer Kunst Hamburg Germany
April 2015Christie's London United Kingdom
April 2008Ketterer Kunst Munich Germany
April 2008Ketterer Kunst Munich Germany

Meaning & Analysis

Gestural, semi-abstract, and entertaining only a tenuous link to its subject matter, Schweizer Alpen I - B1 (1969) is one of a number of landscape works completed by Richter during the late 1960s. Unlike the artist’s semi-realist ‘photo paintings’, such as Wolken (Clouds) (1969) or Seestück I (1969), also completed in the same year, Richter situates his depiction of the natural world towards the abstract end of the spectrum. This decision, he argued, was to explore the abstraction inherent to the natural world - a site onto which the viewer themselves is free to project meaning. Like many of his early landscapes, Schweizer Alpen I - B1 borrows motifs from Romantic painting. Invoking the sublime via the motif of the mountain, the print conjures reminiscences of Caspar David Friedrich and his instantly recognisable painting, Die Wanderer über dem Nebelmeer (Wandered above the Sea of Fog) (1818).

Commenting on his relationship to the natural world, and to romantic landscape painting in general, Richter once commented that contemporary society lacks ‘the spiritual foundation that supported romantic painting. We have lost the feeling of “God’s omnipresence in nature”. For us, everything is empty.’ This emptiness, one could argue, is referenced by the semi-referential, semi-abstracted nature of the print. Blurring the rugged contours gouged by glaciers, the viscerality of a higher presence - of a tangible sense of nature’s unstoppable power to carve up landscapes and to literally ‘move mountains’ - is lost or concealed.

  • Hailing from Germany, Gerhard Richter has not been confined to one visual style. A testament to versatility and artistic diversity, Richter's work spans from photorealism to abstraction and conceptual art, and his portfolio is rich in varied media. From creating bold canvases to working on glass to distort the lines between wall-based art and sculpture, Richter has honed in on the blur technique to impart an ambiguity on his creations. To this day, Richter is one of the most recognised artists of the 20th century with his art having been presented in exhibitions worldwide. His global impact underscores his legacy as a trailblazer of artistic exploration.

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