{"id":4445,"date":"2026-02-15T22:21:57","date_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:21:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/?p=4445"},"modified":"2026-02-15T22:21:57","modified_gmt":"2026-02-15T21:21:57","slug":"becoming-gerhard-richter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/4445","title":{"rendered":"Becoming Gerhard Richter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>A while back, somebody emailed me asking for permission to publish one of my early paintings in his upcoming book. I was inclined to allow it, felt a little excited even. But I didn&#8217;t remember having done the painting at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Anyway, I forgot to reply to the email (as I like to do) and went on with my life. Today that same person emailed me again, with the same inquiry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As it turns out, he had been looking at a painting by Gerhard Richter the entire time, which regrettably is not me. So I won&#8217;t be published after all, and can&#8217;t give permission to publish a Gerhard Richter painting either. At least, he got his reply this time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>For people confused about this, my work can be viewed under <a href=\"https:\/\/richter.studio\">https:\/\/richter.studio<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while back, somebody emailed me asking for permission to publish one of my early paintings in his upcoming book. I was inclined to allow it, felt a little excited even. But I didn&#8217;t remember having done the painting at all. Anyway, I forgot to reply to the email (as I like to do) and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"federated","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,859],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english","category-thoughts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4445"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4446,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4445\/revisions\/4446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/oelna.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}