Richter was preoccupied with Abstract Paintings
almost exclusively for the first year of the 1990s. However, in 1991, he
returned to the medium of mirrors, which he had first explored a decade earlier
and created the first Coloured Mirrors drawing on this dormant interest in
minimalist abstraction. In combination, his Abstract Paintings of the early
1990s also leant towards the more structured and minimalist end of abstraction. Abstraktes
Bild [Abstract Painting] ‘758-4’, 1992, comes from a group of abstracts
which were traversed by vertical erasures recalling Richter's interest in the
grid structures of early 20th century abstracts during this time. One of this
group, Abstraktes Bild [Abstract Painting] ‘779-3’, 1992, was included
in Tate Modern's "Gerhard Richter: Panorama" exhibition in 2012.