[Translated to English]

James Rosenquist in the retrospective.
COLOGNE. He painted as for giants. The formats of pop art artist James Rosenquist were enormous. Maybe for the last time now all important works are united.

Gerhard Richter (85) still remembers his first encounter with the painter James Rosenquist. It was in 1970, when he was in New York for the first time together with his artist friend Blinky Palermo.

"James Rosenquist was incredibly nice," says Richter of the German Press Agency. "He immediately drove us through New York in his open car. And then eat somewhere high up in the restaurant. That was great. "Now Richter is looking forward to the big Rosenquist retrospective at Museum Ludwig in his hometown Cologne.

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