Georg Baselitz
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Germany
Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
painter
Painting
Painting is the practice of applying paint, pigment, color or other medium to a surface . The application of the medium is commonly applied to the base with a brush but other objects can be used. In art, the term painting describes both the act and the result of the action. However, painting is...
who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany
West Germany
West Germany is the common English, but not official, name for the Federal Republic of Germany or FRG in the period between its creation in May 1949 to German reunification on 3 October 1990....
. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist
Neo-expressionism
Neo-expressionism is a style of modern painting and sculpture that emerged in the late 1970s and dominated the art market until the mid-1980s...
, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern
Postmodern art
Postmodern art is a term used to describe an art movement which was thought to be in contradiction to some aspect of modernism, or to have emerged or developed in its aftermath...
.
His career was kick-started in the 1960s after police action against one of his paintings, (Die große Nacht im Eimer
Die große Nacht im Eimer
Die große Nacht im Eimer is a painting by Georg Baselitz. It was painted in the years 1962/1963 and hangs today in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne....
), because of its provocative, offending sexual nature.
Baselitz is one of the world's best-selling living artists. He is a professor at the Hochschule der Künste art academy in Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...
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Life
Baselitz was born 23 January 1938, as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz (now a part of KamenzKamenz
Kamenz is a Lusatian town in eastern Saxony, Germany, with a population of 18,243, and is part of the Bautzen district. The town is located about northeast of Dresden and about northwest of Bautzen....
, Saxony
Saxony
The Free State of Saxony is a landlocked state of Germany, contingent with Brandenburg, Saxony Anhalt, Thuringia, Bavaria, the Czech Republic and Poland. It is the tenth-largest German state in area, with of Germany's sixteen states....
), in what was later to be East Germany. His father was an elementary-school teacher and the family lived in the local schoolhouse. Baselitz first encountered art in albums of nineteenth-century pencil drawings in the school library. He also assisted nature photographer Helmut Drechsler on occasional ornithological shoots.
1950-1957
In his early life, his family moved to the county town of KamenzKamenz
Kamenz is a Lusatian town in eastern Saxony, Germany, with a population of 18,243, and is part of the Bautzen district. The town is located about northeast of Dresden and about northwest of Bautzen....
. Baselitz attended the local school, in the assembly hall of which hangs a reproduction of the 1859 painting Wermsdorfer Wald by Louis-Ferdinand von Rayski, an artist who's grasp of realism
Realism
Realism, Realist or Realistic are terms that describe any manifestation of philosophical realism, the belief that reality exists independently of observers, whether in philosophy itself or in the applied arts and sciences. In this broad sense it is frequently contrasted with Idealism.Realism in the...
was a formative influence. He read the writings of Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme
Jakob Böhme was a German Christian mystic and theologian. He is considered an original thinker within the Lutheran tradition...
. At the ages of 14 and 15, he painted portraits, religious subjects, still lifes and landscapes, some in a futuristic style. In 1955, he applied to study at the Kunstakademie in Dresden
Dresden
Dresden is the capital city of the Free State of Saxony in Germany. It is situated in a valley on the River Elbe, near the Czech border. The Dresden conurbation is part of the Saxon Triangle metropolitan area....
but was rejected. In 1956, he passed the entrance exam to study forestry at the Forstschule in Taranth and successfully applied to study at the Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst in East Berlin
East Berlin
East Berlin was the name given to the eastern part of Berlin between 1949 and 1990. It consisted of the Soviet sector of Berlin that was established in 1945. The American, British and French sectors became West Berlin, a part strongly associated with West Germany but a free city...
. He studied painting under professors Walter Womacka
Walter Womacka
Walter Womacka was a German Socialist Realist artist.Womacka was born in Obergeorgenthal, Czechoslovakia. He lived in East Berlin for most of his life, and was the head of the School of Art and Design Berlin-Weissensee from 1968 until 1988...
and Herbert Behrens-Hangler, and befriended Peter Graf and Ralf Winkler
Ralf Winkler
Ralf Winkler, alias A.R. Penck is a German painter, printmaker and sculptor.He was born in Dresden, Germany, and studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and...
(later known as A. R. Penck). After two semesters, he was expelled for "sociopolitical immaturity." The next year he successfully applied for a place at West Berlin
West Berlin
West Berlin was a political exclave that existed between 1949 and 1990. It comprised the western regions of Berlin, which were bordered by East Berlin and parts of East Germany. West Berlin consisted of the American, British, and French occupation sectors, which had been established in 1945...
's Hochschule der Künste and continued his studies in the class of Professor Hann Trier, a creative environment largely dominated by the gestural abstraction of Tachism and Art Informel, affecting a certain orientation towards Paris amongst both staff and students . He immersed himself in the theories of Ernst-Wilhelm Nay, Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Kandinsky
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky was an influential Russian painter and art theorist. He is credited with painting the first purely-abstract works. Born in Moscow, Kandinsky spent his childhood in Odessa. He enrolled at the University of Moscow, studying law and economics...
and Kasimir Malevich. During this time he became friends with Eugen Schönebeck and Benjamin Katz. Andreas Franzke gives his primary artistic influences at this time as Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock
Paul Jackson Pollock , known as Jackson Pollock, was an influential American painter and a major figure in the abstract expressionist movement. During his lifetime, Pollock enjoyed considerable fame and notoriety. He was regarded as a mostly reclusive artist. He had a volatile personality, and...
and Philip Guston
Philip Guston
Philip Guston was a notable painter and printmaker in the New York School, which included many of the Abstract expressionists, such as Jackson Pollock and Willem De Kooning...
. Conversely, he argues that Baselitz found the work of Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman
Barnett Newman was an American artist. He is seen as one of the major figures in abstract expressionism and one of the foremost of the color field painters.-Early life:...
inaccessible, as well as that of Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko
Mark Rothko, born Marcus Rothkowitz , was a Russian-born American painter. He is classified as an abstract expressionist, although he himself rejected this label, and even resisted classification as an "abstract painter".- Childhood :Mark Rothko was born in Dvinsk, Vitebsk Province, Russian...
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1958-1963
In 1958, after moving from East Berlin to West Berlin, Baselitz met his future wife, Elke Kretzschmar. He also produced his first original works in a distinct style of his own, among them the imaginary portraits "Uncle Bernhard"/ "Onkel Bernhard." In the same year, he started work on the "Rayski-Head"/ "Rayski-Kopf" series. In 1961, he adopted the name Georg Baselitz in a tribute to his home town. In the same year, he is admitted to the Hann Trier master class. In 1962, he married Elke Kretzschmar and they had a son named Daniel. He also completed his studies at the Akademie. In 1963, Baselitz's first solo exhibition at Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, caused a public scandal. Two of the pictures, "The Big Night Down The Drain"/ "Die große Nacht im EimerDie große Nacht im Eimer
Die große Nacht im Eimer is a painting by Georg Baselitz. It was painted in the years 1962/1963 and hangs today in the Museum Ludwig in Cologne....
" (1962/63) and the "Naked Man"/ "Nackter Mann" (1962), are seized by the public prosecutor. The ensuing court case did not end until 1965.
1964-1969
Baselitz spent the spring of 1964 at Schloß Wolfsburg and produced his first etchings in the printing shop there, which were exhibited later that year. The next year, he won a six-month scholarship to study at the Villa Romana in FlorenceFlorence
Florence is the capital city of the Italian region of Tuscany and of the province of Florence. It is the most populous city in Tuscany, with approximately 370,000 inhabitants, expanding to over 1.5 million in the metropolitan area....
. While there, he studied Mannerist graphics and produced the "Animal Piece"/ "Tierstück" pictures. After returning to West Berlin, he worked until 1966 on the "Heroes"/ "Helden" group, which includes the large-format composition "The Great Friends"/ "Die großen Freunde." In 1966, his second son, Anton, was born, and the family moved to Osthofen
Osthofen
Osthofen is a Verband-free town – one belonging to no Verbandsgemeinde, a kind of collective municipality – in the middle of the Wonnegau in the Alzey-Worms district in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany...
, near Worms
Worms, Germany
Worms is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Rhine River. At the end of 2004, it had 85,829 inhabitants.Established by the Celts, who called it Borbetomagus, Worms today remains embattled with the cities Trier and Cologne over the title of "Oldest City in Germany." Worms is the only...
. Through early 1969, he produced further large-format "Foresters"/ "Waldarbeiter" pictures. In 1969, using Wermsdorfer Wald by Louis-Ferdinand von Rayski as a model, he paints his first picture to feature an inverted motif, "The Wood On Its Head"/ "Der Wald auf dem Kopf."
1970-1975
In the 1970s, Baselitz exhibited regularly at MunichMunich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
's Galerie Heiner Friedrich. Most of the works he produced during this time were landscapes themed as pictures-within-a-picture. In 1970, at the Kunstmuseum Basel, Dieter Koepplin staged the first retrospective of drawings and graphic works by Baselitz. At the Galeriehaus in Cologne's Lindenstraße, Franz Dahlem puts on the first exhibition of pictures with upside-down motifs. In 1971, the Baselitz family once again moved, relocating to Forst an der Weinstraße. Georg used the old village school as studio and started painting pictures featuring bird motifs. He exhibited several times in the next few years around Germany. He also participated in the 1972 documenta 5 in Kassel
Kassel
Kassel is a town located on the Fulda River in northern Hesse, Germany. It is the administrative seat of the Kassel Regierungsbezirk and the Kreis of the same name and has approximately 195,000 inhabitants.- History :...
. This same year he began using a fingerpainting technique. He then began painting landscapes until 1975, chiefly based on motifs from around Deutschbaselitz. In 1975, the family moved to Derneburg, near Hildesheim
Hildesheim
Hildesheim is a city in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is located in the district of Hildesheim, about 30 km southeast of Hanover on the banks of the Innerste river, which is a small tributary of the Leine river...
. Baselitz visited New York for the first time and worked there for two weeks. He also visited Brazil, participating in the 13th Biennale
São Paulo Art Biennial
The São Paulo Art Biennial was founded in 1951 and has been held every two years since. It is the second oldest art biennial in the world after the Venice Biennial , which serves as its role model....
in São Paulo
São Paulo
São Paulo is the largest city in Brazil, the largest city in the southern hemisphere and South America, and the world's seventh largest city by population. The metropolis is anchor to the São Paulo metropolitan area, ranked as the second-most populous metropolitan area in the Americas and among...
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1976-1980
In 1976, Baselitz set up an additional studio in Florence, which he used until 1981. In 1977, he began working on large-format linocutLinocut
Linocut is a printmaking technique, a variant of woodcut in which a sheet of linoleum is used for the relief surface. A design is cut into the linoleum surface with a sharp knife, V-shaped chisel or gouge, with the raised areas representing a reversal of the parts to show printed...
s. He began teaching at the Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste
Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe
The State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, situated in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, is one of the smaller art schools in Germany with average 300 students....
in Karlsruhe
Karlsruhe
The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...
, where he is appointed professor in 1978. From 1978 until 1980, he worked on diptychs using the tempera painting technique (combinations of motifs), multipart pictures (series of motifs), and large-format individual works such as "The Corn Gleaner"/ "Die Ährenleserin," "Woman Clearing Away Rubble"/ "Trümmerfrau," "Eagle"/ "Adler" and "Boy Reading"/ "Der lesende Knabe." The works become more abstract, with scriptural elements predominating. In 1980, he showed his first sculpture at the Venice Biennale
Venice Biennale
The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...
.
1981-1989
In 1981, Baselitz set up an addition study in Castiglione Florentino, near ArezzoArezzo
Arezzo is a city and comune in Central Italy, capital of the province of the same name, located in Tuscany. Arezzo is about 80 km southeast of Florence, at an elevation of 296 m above sea level. In 2011 the population was about 100,000....
, which he uses until 1987. His work is exhibited in New York for the first time in 1981. By 1982, he began devoting more time to sculpture, in addition to several exhibitions. In 1983, he began using Christian motifs in much of his artwork, and completed the major composition "Dinner in Dresden"/ "Nachtessen in Dresden". In the same year, he took up a new professorship at the Hochschule der Künste Berlin. In 1986, in recognition of Baselitz's achievements, he was awarded the Kaiserring by the city of Goslar
Goslar
Goslar is a historic town in Lower Saxony, Germany. It is the administrative centre of the district of Goslar and located on the northwestern slopes of the Harz mountain range. The Old Town of Goslar and the Mines of Rammelsberg are UNESCO World Heritage Sites.-Geography:Goslar is situated at the...
. Through the 1980s, Baselitz's work is exhibited frequently in Germany. In 1989, the title Chevalier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres was conferred upon Baselitz by French Minister of Arts Jack Lang
Jack Lang (French politician)
Jack Mathieu Émile Lang is a French politician. A member of the Socialist Party, he served as France's Minister of Culture from 1981 to 1986 and 1988 to 1992, and as Minister of Education from 1992 to 1993 and 2000 to 2002. He was also the Mayor of Blois from 1989 to 2000...
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1990-2009
In 1990, at the Nationalgalerie im Alten Museum in Berlin, the first major exhibition of Baselitz's works in East Germany was staged. In 1992, he resigned from the Akademie der Künste in Berlin. In 1993, he designed the set for Harrison BirtwistleHarrison Birtwistle
Sir Harrison Paul Birtwistle CH is a British contemporary composer.-Life:Birtwistle was born in Accrington, a mill town in Lancashire some 20 miles north of Manchester. His interest in music was encouraged by his mother, who bought him a clarinet when he was seven, and arranged for him to have...
's opera "Punch and Judy," staged under the direction of Pierre Audi
Pierre Audi
Pierre Audi is a French-Lebanese theatre director and artistic director.Pierre Audi is the son of the Lebanese banker Raymond Audi and Andrée Michel Fattal, the eldest of three children. Audi's family were originally from originally from Saida, but he attended the French Lycée in Beirut...
at the Dutch Opera in Amsterdam. He also took part in the International Pavilion at the Venice Biennale with the "Male Torso"/ "Männlicher Torso" sculpture, accompanied by oversized drawings. In 1994, Baselitz designed a stamp for the French postal service. He also produced his first ground gold picture that year. In 1995, the first major retrospective of Baselitz's work in the US is staged at the Guggenheim
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...
in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
. This retrospective is also exhibited in Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
and Los Angeles
Los Ángeles
Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...
. Throughout the 1990s, his work was exhibited frequently throughout Europe.In 2002,retrospective of Baselitz's work in Art Gallery of Yapı Kredi Bank in [Istanbul].
Baselitz currently lives and works near Munich
Munich
Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
and in Imperia. He recently sold his castle in Derneburg.
His work was exhibited in London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, at the Royal Academy of Arts in late 2007, and in the White Cube
White Cube
White Cube is a contemporary art gallery designed by MRJ Rundell & Associates in Hoxton Square in the East End of London Mason's Yard, in central London and White Cube Bermondsey in South East London...
gallery in 2009.
From 21 November 2009, to 14 March 2010, the Museum Frieder Burda and Baden-Baden’s Staatliche Kunsthalle will be exhibiting a comprehensive survey of the artist, featuring approximately 140 works. “Baselitz. A Retrospective” will be presented at the two neighbouring museums, with the Museum Frieder Burda displaying “50 years of painting”, the Staatliche Kunsthalle “30 years of sculpture”.
Style
In the 1970s, Baselitz was part of a group of Neo-Expressionist German artists, occasionally identified as “Neue Wilden,” focusing on deformation, the power of subject and the vibrancy of the colors. He became famous for his upside-down images. He is seen as a revolutionary painter as he draws the viewer’s attention to his works by making them think and sparking their interest. The subjects of the paintings don’t seem to be as significant as the work’s visual insight. Throughout his career, Baselitz has varied his style, ranging from layering substances to his style, since the 1990s, which focuses more on lucidity and smooth changes.Works
Below is a partial list of Baselitz's works.- Ohne Titel (Untitled) (1958)
- Der Orientale - Kranker Orientale - Vision - Glaubensträger (The Oriental - Sick Oriental - Vision - Upholder of the Faith) (1959)
- Paranoia (1960)
- Russische Frauenliebe (Russian Woman's Love) (1960)
- Rayski Kopf (Rayski Head) series (1960-61)
- G.-Kopf (G.-Head) (1960-61)
- Auf einer Landschaft (On a Landscape) (1961)
- Der Acker (The Field) (1962)
- Drei Köpfe (Three Heads) (1962)
- Brustkorb (Ribcage) (1962)
- Hommage à Charles Méryon (Homage to Charles Méryon) (1962-63)
- Die grosse Nacht im Eimer (Big Night Down the Drain) (1962-63)
- Tränenbeutel (Tear Sac) (1963)
- Schweinekopf (Pig's Head) (1963)
- Aus Der Traum (The Dream is Over) (1963)
- Drei Herzen (Three Hearts) (1963)
- Hommage à Wrubel - Michail Wrubel - 1911 - Alte Heimat - Scheide der Existenz (Homage to Vrubel - Mikhail VrubelMikhail VrubelMikhail Aleksandrovich Vrubel is usually regarded amongst the Russian painters of the Symbolist movement. In reality, he deliberately stood aloof from contemporary art trends, so that the origin of his unusual manner should be sought in Late Byzantine and Early Renaissance painting.-Early...
- 1911 - The Old Native Country - Border of Existence) (1963) - Der Fuss - 1 P.D. (The Foot - 1st P.D.) (1963)
- 2. P.D. Fuss - Alte Heimat (2nd P.D. Foot - The Old Native Country) (1960-63)
- Dritter P.D. Fuss (Third P.D. Foot) (1963)
- Alte Heimat - Scheide der Existenz - Vierter P.D. Fuss (The Old Native - Border of Existence - Fourth P.D. Foot) (1960/63)
- Fünfter P.D. Fuss - Russicher Fuss (Fifth P.D. Foot - Russian Foot) (1963)
- 6. P.D. Fuss (6th P.D. Foot) (1963)
- Kelte P.D. Fuss (Celt - P.D. Foot) (1963)
- Achtes P.D. - Die Hand (Eighth P.D. - The Hand) (1963)
- P.D. (1960/63)
- P.D. Fuss (1963)
- Gruss aus der Zukunft (Greetings from the Future) (1963)
- Geschlecht mit Klössen (Sex With Dumplings) (1963)
- Idol (1963)
- P.D. Idol (1964)
- Oberon - 1. Orthodoxer Salon 64 - E. Neijsvestnij (Oberon - 1st Orthodox Salon 64 - E NeizvestnyErnst NeizvestnyErnst Iosifovich Neizvestny is a Russian sculptor. He currently lives and works in New York City. His last name in Russian literally means "unknown"....
) (1963/64) - Weihnachten (Christmas) (1964)
- Die poetische Kugel (The Poetic Sphere) (1964)
- Das Herz (The Heart) (1964)
- Das Kreuz (The Cross) (1964)
- Gottes Horn - Ich bin unumgänglich (God's Horn - I Am Indispensible) (1964)
- Die Peitschenfrau (The Whip Woman) (1965)
- Bild für die Väter (Picture for the Fathers) (1965)
- Die Banane (The Banana) (1965)
- Mann im Mond - Franz Pforr (Man in the Moon - Franz PforrFranz PforrFranz Pforr was a painter of the German Nazarene movement.He was born in Frankfurt am Main.He received his earliest training from his father, the painter Johann Georg Pforr , and his uncle, the art professor and first inspector of the painting gallery in Kassel, Johann Heinrich Tischbein the...
) (1965) - Das Blumenmädchen (The Flower Girl) (1965)
- Der Dichter (The Poet) (1965)
- Die Hand - Das brennende Haus (The Hand - The Burning House) (1964/65)
- Die Hand - Die Hand Gottes (The Hand - The Hand of God) (1964/65)
- Rotgrüner - Die rote Fahne - Der Rot-Grüne (Red-Green Man - The Red Flag - The Red-Green Man) (1965)
- Der Hirte (The Shepherd) (1965)
- Ökonomie (Husbandry) (1965)
- Ralf 1 (1965)
- Der Hirte (The Shepherd) [2] (1965)
- Die grossen Freunde (The Great Friends) (1965)
- Rebell (Rebel) (1965)
- Der Hirte (The Shepherd) [4] (1965)
- Das grosse Pathos (The Great Pathos) (1965)
- Ludwig Richter auf dem Weg zur Arbeit (Ludwig RichterAdrian Ludwig RichterAdrian Ludwig Richter , a German painter and etcher, was born at Dresden, the son of the engraver Karl August Richter, from whom he received his training; but he was strongly influenced by Erhard and Chodowiecki....
on the way to work) (1965) - Ein Vesperrter (The Inhibited One) (1965)
- Der Baum 1 (The Tree 1) (1965/66)
- Falle (Trap) (1966)
- Das Hirte (The Shepherd) (1966)
- Scwarzgrüdig (Black Grounded) (1966)
- Exote (Exotic) (1966)
- Schwarz Weiss (Black White) (1966)
- Lockiger (Curly) (1966)
- Zwei geteilte Kühe II (Two Divided Cows II) (1966)
- Drei Streifen - Der Maler im Mantel - Zweites Frakturbild (Three Strips - The Painter in a Coat - Second Fracture Painting) (1966)
- MMM in G und A (1961/62/66)
- Grosser Kopf (Larger Head) (1966)
- Der Jäger (The Hunter) (1966)
- 3 Köpfe mit Schnecke (3 Heads with Slug) (1966)
- Kullervos Füße (KullervoKullervoIn the Finnish Kalevala, Kullervo was the ill-fated son of Kalervo. He is the only irredeemably tragic character in Finnish mythology.-Rune 31 - Kullervo, son of Evil:...
's Feet) (1967) - Mann mit Gitarre. Paranoiamarsch (Man with Guitar. Paranoia March) (1967)
- Katzenkopf (Cat's Head) (1966/67)
- Kullervos Beine - Füße (Kullervo's Legs - Feet) (1967)
- Ein Grüner (Green One) (1967)
- B für Larry (B for Larry) (1967)
- Hunde im Gebüsch (Dogs in the Bushes) (1967/68)
- Ein Jäger (A Hunter) (1968)
- Waldarbeiter (Woodmen) (1968)
- Meissener Waldarbeiter (MeissenMeissenMeissen is a town of approximately 30,000 about northwest of Dresden on both banks of the Elbe river in the Free State of Saxony, in eastern Germany. Meissen is the home of Meissen porcelain, the Albrechtsburg castle, the Gothic Meissen Cathedral and the Meissen Frauenkirche...
Woodmen) (1968) - Die Kuh - Nr. 2 (The Cow - No. 2) (1969)
- Der Wald auf dem Kopf (The Wood on It Head) (1969)
- Der Mannn am Baum (The Man by the Trees) (1969)
- Da. Porträt - Franz Dahlem (Da. Portrait - Franz Dahlem) (1969)
- D. Hildebrand - Kopfbild (D. Hildebrand - Upside-Down Picture) (1969)
- Der werktätige Dresdener - Porträt M.G.B. (The Dresden Workman - Portrait M.G.B.) (1969)
- Fünfziger Jahre Porträt - M.W. (Fifties Portrait - M.W.) (1969)
- Birke (Birch) (1970)
- Kaspar und Ilka König (Kaspar and Ilka König) (1970/71)
- Der Falke (The Falcon) (1971)
- Fingermalerei I - Adler - à la (Finger Painting I - Eagle - à la) (1971/72)
- Fingermalerei Birken - 4. Bild (Finger Painting Birches - 4th Picture) (1972)
- Elke II - Fingermalerei an Elkes Kopf (Elke II - Finger Painting on Elke's Head) (1972)
- Fingermalarei - Interieur (Finger Painting - Interior) (1973)
- Akt Elke (Nude Elke) (1974)
- Birken Piskowitz (Birches Piskovitz) (1974)
- Männlicher Akt (Male Nude) (1975)
- Schlafzimmer (Bedroom) (1975)
- Brauna (1975)
- Elke V. (1976)
- Stilleben (Still Life) (1976/77)
- Männlicher Akt - Schwarz (Male Nude - Black) (1977)
- Elke 4 (1977)
- Die Flasche - der Adler (3. Paar) (The Bottle - the Eagle [3rd Pair]) (1978)
- Adler (Eagle) (1978)
- Birnbaum Nr. 1-4 (2. Gruppe) (Pear Tree Nos 1-4 [2nd Group]) (1978)
- Die Ährenleserin (The Gleaner) (1978)
- Trümmerfrau (Bomb-Site Woman) (1978)
- Adler (Eagle) [2] (1978)
- Akt - Der Baum (13. Gruppe) (Nude - The Tree [13th Group]) (1979)
- Das Straßenbild (The Street Picture) (1979/80)
- Modell für eine Skulptur (Model for a Sculpture) (1979/80)
- Ohne Titel (Untitled) (1979/80)
- Ohne Titel (Untitled) 2 (1979/80)
- Frau am Strand - Night in Tunesia (Woman on Beach - Night in Tunisia) (1980)
- Blick aus dem Fenster nach draußen - Strandbild, 7 (Look Outwards of the Window - Beach Picture, 7) (1981)
- Orangenesser I (Orange-Eater I) (1981)
- Orangenesser IV (Orange-Eater IV) (1981)
- Flaschentrinker (Bottle Drinking Man) (1981)
- Glastrinker (Drinking Man) (1981)
- Glastrinker (Glass Drinking Man) (1981)
- Kaffeekanne und Orange (Coffeepot and Orange) (1981)
- Buckliger Trinker (Humpbacked Drinker) (1981)
- Adler (Eagle) (1982)
- Frau am Strand (Woman on the Beach) (1982)
- Die Mädchen von Olmo I (The Girls of Olmo I) (1982)
- Mann im Bett (Man in Bed) (1982)
- Adieu (1982)
- Mann auf rotem Kopfkissen (Man on Red Pillow) (1982)
- Nacht mit Hund (Night with Dog) (1982)
- Adler im Bett (Eagle in Bed) (1982)
- Franz in Bett (Franz in Bed) (1982)
- Rotschopf (Redhead) (1982)
- Maler mit Segelschiff (Painter with Sailing-Ship) (1982)
- Maler mit Fäustling (Painter with Mitten) (1982)
- Ohne Titel (Untitled)[1 - 5+] (1982/83)
- Blauer Kopf (Blue Head) (1983)
- Schwarz Säule (Black Post) (1983)
- Nachtessen in Dresden (Dinner in Dresden) (1983)
- Blauer Mann (Blue Man) (1983)
- Der Brückechor (The Brücke Chorus) (1983)
- Die Dornenkrönung (The Crowning with Thorns) (1983)
- Der Bote (The Herald) (1984)
- Lazarus (1984)
- Der rote Mann (The Red Man) (1984/85)
- Scheibenkopf (Segment Head) (1986)
- Die Beweinung (The Lamentation) (1983)
- Der Abgarkopf (The Abgar Head) [1-3] (1984)
- Die Verspottung (The Mocking) (1984)
- Vier Hände (Four Hands) (1984)
- Zwei Rehe (Two Deer) (1985)
- Das Liebespaar (Loving Couple) (1984)
- Die Nacht (The Night) (1984/85)
- Mutter und Kind (Mother and Child) (1985)
- Italienische Frau (Italian Woman) (1985)
- Weibliche Landschaft (Female Landscape) (1985)
- Der Hase (The Hare) (1986)
- Pastorale - Der Tag (Pastorale - The Day) (1986)
- Pastorale - Die Nacht (Pastorale - The Night) (1985/86)
- Dolores (1986)
- Besuch in Dresden (Visit to Dresden) (1986)
- Zerbrochene Brücke - Wendenbraut (Shattered Bridge - Wendish Bride) (1986)
- Zwei schwarze Bäume (Two Black Trees) (1986)
- Gruß aus Oslo (Greetings from Oslo) (1986)
- Die Riesin (The Giantess) (1987)
- Der Fisch (The Fish) (1987)
- Alte Sachen (Old Things) (1987)
- G.-Kopf (G.-Head) (1987)
- Selbstporträt Desaster (Self-Portrait Disaster) (1987)
- 1897 (1986/87)
- Sieben mal Paula (Seven Times Paula) (1987)
- Dicke Blonde (Fat Blonde) (1987)
- Das Malerbild (The Painter's Picture) (1988)
- Die Mühle brennt - Richard (The Burning Mill - Richard) (1988)
External links
- Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
- Gagosian Gallery
- Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
- Galerie Michael Werner
- Galerie Bernd Kugler
- actual exhibitions with Georg Baselitz on Artfacts Georg Baselitz works are still widely at present in various shows and permanent collections in museums or galleries throughout the world.
- Portrait of the artist by the Goethe-Institut