Georg Baselitz

🔳Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938, as Hans-Georg Kern, in Deutschbaselitz, Germany) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. 

His practice, which includes sculpture and printmaking, explores what it means to be a German artist in the postwar era, and is characterized by bold colors, forceful brushstrokes, and the incorporation of folkloric or archetypal subject matter.

“I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over,” he said of his process. “Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived and the picture that fights for its own life.”

Current exhibitions:

HENZE + KETTERER

Georg Baselitz - Hokusai, Remixe, ein Indianergrab und "Bald ist diese Zeit vorbei"?

Riehen, Jan 19 – Apr 26

SCHACKY ART & ADVISORY

Intaglio - A selection of prints and drawings

Düsseldorf, Feb 28 – May 30

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