Archive Hatje Cantz Verlag | Baselitz

Raw, Powerful, Expressive, Bold—For Fifty Years These Terms Have Been Used To Describe The Internationally Influential Oeuvre Of Georg Baselitz (*1938). His First Scandalous Success Came In The Sixties With His Works On Sexual Themes. His Later Heroic Pictures Also Signaled A New Approach To Updating Classic Figurative Painting. Baselitz’S Frakturbilder, And Finally, His World-Famous “Upside-Down” Paintings Represented His Solutions To The Problem Of Depicting Content. In His Latest Series, Remix, The Artist Subjects Important Motifs From Throughout His Career To A More Casual And Virtuoso Reinterpretation.

This Retrospective Monograph Presents The Artist’S Painted Oeuvre, Providing Insight Into His Methods As Well As His Rich Cosmos Of Ideas And Thought.



Exhibition Schedule: Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, October 24, 2009–February 21, 2010