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Artist
Georg Baselitz
b. 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Germany · German · Based in Basel, Switzerland & Salzburg, Austria
- Hochschule der Künste, West Berlin under Hann Trier (1957–1962)
- Inverted Painting
- Chainsaw Carved Wood Sculpture
- Neo-Expressionism
- Prints
Georg Baselitz emerged in West Germany in the early 1960s with deliberately abrasive figurative paintings. From 1969 he began painting motifs upside down, separating the act of painting from conventional narrative orientation. His rough-hewn wood sculptures extended the same emphasis on material aggression.
Painting; sculpture; printmaking
Gallery Representation
Objects
Artist Films
Georg Baselitz: Only in Art the World is Whole
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Major Works
- 1962–63Die große Nacht im Eimer
- 1965The Great Friends
- 1967–68The Woodsmen
- 1969The Wood on Its Head
- 1972Adler
- 1979–80Model for a Sculpture
- 1981The Girls of Olmo II
- 1989’45
- 2005 onwardRemix series
- 2021Zero Dom
Museums & Public Collections
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- Marcel Odenbach
Interviews & Writing
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