For Painting’s Great Skeptic, Gerhard Richter, History Is a Blur Our critic Jason Farago on how the artist conceived a new way forward for landscape painting. June 11, 2026, 9:11 a.m. ET “Garmisch” is one of 26 paintings on view in “Gerhard Richter: Landschaften,” at David Zwirner in New York: a perfectly paced showcase of paintings from the 20th century that, at the same time, makes a direct argument about how to live in the 21st.