Among Different Media: Gerhard Richter’s Landscape and its Medial Exchanges

From the artist’s very first photo-paintings to the most recent abstracts, landscape has been an omnipresent subject in Gerhard Richter’s career that presents a complete openness to different media, especially photography. This article attempts to study these multidisciplinary and intermedial references, the dialogue and mingling of the arts, as well as their contribution to landscape painting. Its purpose is to show not only how Richter integrates other works and characteristics from different arts, but also how works of art earlier in time can be perceived in his landscape depictions. To this end, the study of some representative examples helps us embrace various aspects of Richter’s practice, especially the ones that engage in a particular dialogue with abstraction, rendering the works of art, as it will be shown, into intra-, inter-, trans-, and multi-medial landscapes.Le paysage est un sujet omniprésent dans l’oeuvre de l’artiste allemand Gerhard Richter. Depuis ses premières photopeintures marines, le paysage est enrichi par des médias artistiques différents et, surtout, la photographie. Cet article essaie d’explorer ces relations et références intermédiales créées, le mélange des arts et leur contribution au genre paysager. À cette fin, l’étude des exemples caractéristiques de ses paysages nous aidera à révéler le dialogue entre l’oeuvre d’art et l’abstraction, la tradition picturale et les autres arts, et ainsi découvrir un palimpseste des paysages intra-, inter-, trans-, multi-médiaux