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Copyright 2001 Georg Baselitz | | | Baselitz, Georg (1938 - ) Germany
Blonde ohne Stahlhelm- Otto D. (Blonde Without Helmet - Otto D.), 1987
Oil on canvas; 198.5 x 154 cm Neo-Expressionism
UID 102-42
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Biography
Born Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. Lives in Derneburg, Lower Saxony. Studied art in 1956 at the College of Fine and Applied Art, East Berlin, where socialist realism was the predominant style. It was here that he changed his name from Kern to Baselitz, after his birthplace. He went to West Berlin in 1957, continuing his study of painting and meeting Penck. In 1961, influenced by Artaud and Lautréamont, they issued their "Ertes Pandämonium", a manifesto and also an iconoclastic programme for his approach to painting. A second manifesto followed in 1962. The following year, he exhibited at the Werner & Katz Gallery, in Berlin, and two of his canvases were confiscated by the public prosecutor. After a trial lasting two years, charges were dropped and the paintings returned. In 1969, he began to execute all his paintings upside down, a reversal that gave him the freedom, as he said, "to concentrate on purely painterly problems". Baselitz was named professor at the Karlsruhe and Berlin Colleges of Art during the 1970s, and became recognized as a father figure of the new expressive painting. In recent years he has turned to polychrome sculpture. He represented Germany at the Venice Biennale in 1982, with a wooden sculpture. Participated at "Documenta" 5 and 7. In 1982, first exhibition in NYC, followed by others in 1988, 1990 and 1995. In 1988 retrospective of his work was held at Palazzo Vecchio, Florence, Kunsthalle Hamburg. In 1989 received France's medal "Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres". Had major retrospectives at Kunsthaus Zürich, and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf in 1990 and in 1995, at the Guggenheim (travelled in USA and Europe).
Exhibitions
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988 Toledo Museum of Art, The, USA 12-01-1988 ~ 01-01-1989
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988 Clark Institute, Willliams College, USA 02-01-1989 ~ 03-01-1989
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988 Schirn Kunsthalle (Frankfurt), Germany 08-01-1989 ~ 11-01-1989
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988 Kunstmuseum (Düsseldorf), Germany 04-01-1989 ~ 07-01-1989
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988 The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, USA 01-10-1988 ~ 30-11-1988
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection Centro Cultural de Belém (CCB), Portugal 10-10-2003 ~ 13-03-2004
Grande Escala - Colecção Berardo Centro das Artes Casa das Mudas, Calheta, Madeira, Portugal 09-10-2004 ~ 18-03-2005
The Berardo Collection Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo (SMAM-CB), Portugal 17-05-1997 ~ 31-08-1997
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo) Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza, Spain 29-06-2006 ~ 26-11-2006
Não te Posso Ver Nem Pintado Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 15-09-2008 ~ 10-05-2009
Arte Médica e Imagem do Corpo Biblioteca Nacional (Lisboa), 07-04-2010 ~ 31-07-2010
Paradise Motel Museu Colecção Berardo, Portugal 13-11-2010 ~ 26-12-2011
Bibliography
Corpus: Visions of the Body in The Berardo Collection, 2003 Published by CCB - Centro Cultural de Belém ISBN 9728176856
Grande Escala - The Berardo Collection, 2004 Published by Centro das Artes - Casa das Mudas ISBN 972890200X
Refigured Painting: The German Image 1960-1988, 1988
Sin Título (el arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo), 2006 Published by Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza ISBN 8495892529
Sotheby's, Contemporary Art, New York, Tuesday, November 9, 1993, lot. 45 , 1993 Published by Sotheby´s
Territórios Singulares na Colecção Berardo, 2002 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 972974288X
The Berardo Collection – Sintra Museum of Modern Art, 1996 Published by Sintra Museu de Arte Moderna - Colecção Berardo ISBN 9729739105
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