Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1964 - 1967
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At the turbulent crossroads of German postwar culture and the international avant-garde, Georg Baselitz emerged in the 1960s as one of the most provocative and uncompromising painters of his generation. Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1964–1967 presents a focused survey of a pivotal period in the artist's career, chronicling the raw, confrontational works produced during a time when Baselitz was actively dismantling the conventions of figurative painting — upending both his subjects and the expectations of the European art world with equal ferocity. This catalogue, produced in conjunction with London's celebrated Anthony d'Offay Gallery, documents the so-called Hero paintings and related works, in which Baselitz conjured ragged, monumental figures that seemed to rise — or fall — from the ruins of a fractured cultural identity. His visceral brushwork, charged with psychological tension and historical weight, positions him as a direct heir to German Expressionism while simultaneously announcing something entirely new. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of postwar European art, this volume raises an unavoidable question: what does it mean to paint the human figure when history itself has rendered that figure broken?
Author: Georg Baselitz
Format: Paperback
Published: 1985, Anthony d'Offay Gallery
Genre: History of arts
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Good
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
At the turbulent crossroads of German postwar culture and the international avant-garde, Georg Baselitz emerged in the 1960s as one of the most provocative and uncompromising painters of his generation. Georg Baselitz: Paintings 1964–1967 presents a focused survey of a pivotal period in the artist's career, chronicling the raw, confrontational works produced during a time when Baselitz was actively dismantling the conventions of figurative painting — upending both his subjects and the expectations of the European art world with equal ferocity. This catalogue, produced in conjunction with London's celebrated Anthony d'Offay Gallery, documents the so-called Hero paintings and related works, in which Baselitz conjured ragged, monumental figures that seemed to rise — or fall — from the ruins of a fractured cultural identity. His visceral brushwork, charged with psychological tension and historical weight, positions him as a direct heir to German Expressionism while simultaneously announcing something entirely new. For collectors, scholars, and admirers of postwar European art, this volume raises an unavoidable question: what does it mean to paint the human figure when history itself has rendered that figure broken?