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John Leighton, director-general of the National Galleries of Scotland, describes Richter as "arguably the most important and influential contemporary artist alive today." The exhibition at the National Gallery complex in the center of the Scottish capital runs through to January 4. Over 60 works from five private collections cover virtually every period of Richter's career. They include the black-and-white photo-based works, which gained him the label of "German Pop Artist" at a time when Andy Warhol was a dominant Pop Art influence in the United States, to what the gallery describes as Richter's "magisterial, sensuously colored abstracts of the 1990s and beyond." Another exhibition of Richter's work, 4900 Colors: Version II, is about to end a two-month run at London's Serpentine Gallery, while London's National Portrait Gallery will host a showing of Gerhard Richter Portraits from February 26 to May 31 next year. Born in Dresden in 1932, Richter was brought up in the Nazi era and then Communist East Germany where he started his career. He moved to West Germany in the early 1960 and held his first exhibition in 1962. The curator of the Edinburgh exhibition, Keith Hartley, believes Richter is a great artist because he has made painting vital and relevant again. "He has used it to deal with contemporary issues...but also he paints a lot of abstract (works), luscious, sensuous paintings, so he's got the whole gamut," he told Reuters. "That's what I think has made him very popular, and also a sort of painter's painter, if you like." CARAVAGGIO Hartley said Richter was highly skilled technically in his mastery of the tools of painting. "He wouldn't have been able to handle such a wide range of subjects if he didn't have the technical mastery he does have." The Richter show follows a highly-successful exhibition of Warhol's works last year, both sponsored by Bank of Scotland's totalART series. 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