Baader-Meinhof » Photo Paintings » Gerhard RichterThe cycle October 18, 1977 consists of 15 paintings that Gerhard Richter worked on between March and November 1988. They result from his intensive research on the left-wing extremist, terrorist group Red Army Faction (RAF)[1], that had been active in West Germany since the beginning of the 1970s. Carrying out bank robberies, bomb attacks and assassinations to finance their life in the underground
