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Policemen so cherish their status as keepers of the peace and protectors of the public that they have occasionally been known to beat to death those citizens or groups who question that status.
Gerhard Richter
Born: February 9, 1932 (age 93)
Bio: Gerhard Richter is a German visual artist and one of the pioneers of the New European Painting that emerged in the second half of the twentieth century.
Known for:
- Abstraktes Bild (809-1) (1994)
- Reading (1994)
- Woman Descending the Staircase (Frau die Treppe herabgehend) (1965)
- Mouth [Mund] (1963)
- Domplatz, Mailand (1968)
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