It's summer. It's travel time. Many people fly off on vacation during these weeks. Whether beach, mountains or city - the sometimes short, sometimes long time in the plane is already part of the vacation for many.
It is the fascination of flying that makes us forget our everyday worries for a brief moment.
Gerhard Richter was also inspired by this in 1968 and created the work “Clouds”. He mounted two photographs taken from an airplane window during a trip to Milan in such a way that the upper motif is rotated by 180° and a new image is created.
This graphic was created as a contribution to a portfolio that contained works by all the lecturers at the Hamburg University of Fine Arts at the time and was published in 1970. Richter had been a guest lecturer there since 1967 before being appointed professor of painting at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1971.
The offset lithograph is limited to 300 copies and represents a "special work" by the most sought-after contemporary artist, which combines several levels: art-historical significance and human longings.
