Like Gerhard Richter's photo-based paintings, they mix nostalgia and Modernist distance (Johnson).

His 1966 landmark Jewish Museum solo exhibition launched this new genre of photo-based painting.

The obvious connection is to Gerhard Richter's photo-based paintings, but Mr. Brauntuch's works come from his own memory bank.

One of the evening's biggest casualties was when Gerhard Richter's "Three Sisters," a 1965 photo-based painting failed to sell.

This exhibition is the first major examination of this material and focuses on its relationship to the artist's photo-based paintings, early and late.

His photo-based paintings are often blurred with a wide blending brush so that we experience them as material first and image second.

The other Richter that brought a high price was "Candle"(1982), one of his celebrated photo-based paintings.

Their photo-based paintings depict adolescents doing nothing much: hanging out at home or in a park (either way, plants and trees are frequent props).

Working in the shadow of Gerhard Richter, this young German painter produces bleak, photo-based paintings of suburban houses or people observed from the rear.