Baselitz
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Few figures in postwar European art have provoked as much debate and fascination as Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned the art world on its head — quite literally — by inverting his subjects in the early 1970s. This exhibition catalogue, published by Waddington Galleries, presents a focused survey of Baselitz's visceral and confrontational body of work, documenting the paintings and prints that established him as one of the defining voices of Neo-Expressionism. It chronicles the raw, fractured energy that characterises his canvases, where the deliberate inversion of imagery strips the subject of narrative function and forces the viewer into a purely formal, emotional encounter with paint itself. Baselitz's art is inseparable from his biography: born in Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1938, he carries the psychological weight of a shattered culture, and that tension — between destruction and creation, between figuration and abstraction — pulses through every work documented here. His style, brutal and lyrical in equal measure, argues against the cool detachment of Minimalism and Conceptualism that dominated Western art discourse, reasserting the primal power of the human figure rendered in violent, expressive brushwork. This catalogue stands as both a historical document and a testament to an artist who refused to make comfortable art — leaving the reader to wonder what further provocations his restless vision might still hold.
Author: Georg Baselitz
Format: Hardback
Published: 1982, Waddington Galleries
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: N/A
Pages: Good
Few figures in postwar European art have provoked as much debate and fascination as Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned the art world on its head — quite literally — by inverting his subjects in the early 1970s. This exhibition catalogue, published by Waddington Galleries, presents a focused survey of Baselitz's visceral and confrontational body of work, documenting the paintings and prints that established him as one of the defining voices of Neo-Expressionism. It chronicles the raw, fractured energy that characterises his canvases, where the deliberate inversion of imagery strips the subject of narrative function and forces the viewer into a purely formal, emotional encounter with paint itself. Baselitz's art is inseparable from his biography: born in Soviet-occupied East Germany in 1938, he carries the psychological weight of a shattered culture, and that tension — between destruction and creation, between figuration and abstraction — pulses through every work documented here. His style, brutal and lyrical in equal measure, argues against the cool detachment of Minimalism and Conceptualism that dominated Western art discourse, reasserting the primal power of the human figure rendered in violent, expressive brushwork. This catalogue stands as both a historical document and a testament to an artist who refused to make comfortable art — leaving the reader to wonder what further provocations his restless vision might still hold.