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sleepingunderstatues:robechlin:
The work was a pro bono commission undertaken by Germany’s most famed artist, Gerhard Richter. It served to replace a plain-glass window that was installed after the original stained-glass window was lost in World War II bombing. The cost of materials and mounting the window totaled $506,000 and was covered by donations from more than 1,000 people. The work takes Richter’s classic colour charts and presents it on a huge scale and with a new medium, glass. The 11,500 squares of glass in 72 colours, fill the 20-meter-high window. The Colonge Cathedral is the most popular tourist landmark in Germany, so the initial reaction was somewhat resistant.
It’s a remarkable work that fuses colour and light theory, minimalism, architecture and religion.