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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Kate Connolly

Gerhard Richter gives Holocaust art to Berlin

Birkenau Cycle by Gerhard Richter on display in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin.
Birkenau Cycle by Gerhard Richter on display in the Alte Nationalgalerie in Berlin. Photograph: Filip Singer/EPA

Fans of the German painter Gerhard Richter are expected to flock to Berlin to view 100 works that he has in effect donated in a long-term loan to a new museum of modern art. The works include a series of paintings addressing the Holocaust that he has vowed never to sell.

The donation by the 89-year-old, who is one of the world’s highest-priced living artists, is destined for the Museum der Moderne, which is under construction in the German capital.

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