Georg Baselitz – Back Then, in Between and Today, Haus der Kunst, Until February 1, 2015
Seventy-six-year-old German painter, sculptor and graphic artist Georg Baselitz is viewed as one of the most prominent and influential postwar German artists, who has played an important role in shaping the development of figural painting. His works can be found in practically all of the world’s most prominent museums.
For decades, Baselitz has been viewed as a wild and shameless scandal-seeker, whose provocations have sometimes garnered him the attention of law-enforcement authorities. In 1963, the police seized two paintings from Baselitz’s first solo exhibition in Berlin on the grounds of their sexually provocative nature. The resulting scandal died down only two years later with the return of the works to the artist. However, that incident turned out to be one of the sparks that ignited Baselitz’s fiery career. Today Baselitz is one of Germany’s best-known artists and one of his most controversial works – The Big Night Down the Drain (Die Große Nacht im Eimer) – is viewed as an icon of postwar European art.
Since 2006, Baselitz has been producing the Remix series of paintings, in which he refers to his earlier iconic works and revisits older motifs. These paintings are being highlighted in the Munich exhibition, along with the artist’s monumental bronze sculptures.
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