1.   At the Friedrich Petzel Gallery, colorful new canvases by the German painter Charline von Heyl add up to her most convincing New York solo to date.

2.   Before the year was out, he opened a show that was ostensibly a homage to the German painter Matthias Grunewald.

3.   Leafing through the catalog, I noticed that, by way of providing bona fides for the art, an essay cites Gerhard Richter, the important German painter.

4.   One is the German painter Sigmar Polke, who has a show of two dozen strange, beautiful, sort of abstract new paintings at Michael Werner Gallery.

5.   The Dallas museum announced this week that it had acquired the complete editioned works of influential German painter Gerhard Richter.

6.   The designs were carried out by Franz Klein, a German painter who lived in London.

7.   The messy Popified Expressionism of the German painter Albert Oehlen has always implied that abstract painting should be as nasty and inelegant as it wants to be.

8.   The plans call for works by Holzer and Christian Boltanski of France as well as by the German painters Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter, and Georg Baselitz.

9.   This German painter is a major artist who has never really taken off in the United States.

10.   Amsterdam -- Dutch Prince Bernhard presents Erasmus Prize to German painter Sigmar Polke.