SEASCAPE [SEESTÜCK], 1968

This is Richter’s first Seascape (Seestück), from 1968. It is a small painting, dominated by horizontality, as if the landscape were seen through the anamorphic lens of cinemascope. It shows a boundless horizon, only altered by a few whirls of foam, where the materiality of the painting looks thicker and the painter’s brushstrokes can be identified.