This is the first of 6 projected volumes, scheduled to be completed over the next seven years. Texts are bilingual, but the catalogue is only in English. The catalogue raisonné only includes works acknowledged and numbered by Richter. Lost and destroyed works are listed, but only if they were numbered. Unacknowledged genuine paintings and sculptures as well as unnumbered destroyed works are not included in the catalogue. publication augments earlier catalogues with the addition of new information on the literature, exhibition history, and provenance of the works listed. The author is the Director of the Gerhard Richter Archiv, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden.