Following his black and white photo-paintings based on magazine and amateur photographs, Richter's landscapes have emerged since 1968 as an independent work group in his oeuvre. No other motif drew such intensity from Gerhard Richter nor occupied him over such a long period. This volume affords a unique insight into Richter's landscape paintings, where landscape and abstraction are not opposed to each other, but emerge instead as related concepts in the painter's appropriation of reality.