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Georg Baselitz

1938
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Photo: Regina Schmeken / Süddetusche Zeitung

Born in 1938 and raised in the Saxon village of Deutschbaselitz in the district of Bautzen, the German-Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist Georg Baselitz (real name Hans-Georg Kern) is one of the most internationally renowned contemporary artists.

The central theme of his figurative-expressive works is destruction and order, often mixed with autobiographical traits. As a young adult, he became acquainted with the repressive state doctrine of the GDR. After just two semesters at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin, he was expelled from the country for "socio-political immaturity". After studying art in West Berlin, Baselitz left behind the socialist realism of the GDR with its typecast heroes and its heroization of work. He enthusiastically turned to new trends from the USA such as Tachism, Abstraction and Action Painting. Baselitz found lasting inspiration above all in the free, radical and impetuous working methods of abstract expressionism, which emphasized the process of creation and the effect of color and "painting as action". Baselitz saw this as an outlet for renouncing social constraints. From 1969, Baselitz turned the pictorial motif around 180 degrees. Baselitz thus not only broke with traditional painting in Germany, but also developed a new direction in figurative art at a time when abstraction was regarded as a global language.

Despite the general reception as the German "prince of painters" par excellence, printmaking plays an equal role to painting in Baselitz's oeuvre and is regarded as an independent means of expression. From 1964 onwards, he produced etchings and, to a much lesser extent, linocuts and woodcuts. His printmaking explorations are linked to existing themes in painting, but with an independent artistic claim. Baselitz's work also includes stage designs and sculptures.

From 1977-1983 Baselitz' held a professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe, from 1983-1988 and from 1992-2003 he was a professor at the Berlin University of the Arts. Baselitz lives and works in Salzburg.

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available works (SELECTION)

Georg Baselitz Indian grave 2002

Georg Baselitz

Indian grave

2002
64000
CHF
Georg Baselitz La Nuit with Marie

Georg Baselitz

La Nuit with Marie

2002
64000
CHF
Georg Baselitz bushes

Georg Baselitz

Bushes

1969
44000
CHF
Georg Baselitz Untitled I

Georg Baselitz

Untitled

1990
85000
CHF
Georg Baselitz Untitled

Georg Baselitz

Untitled

1990
85000
CHF
Georg Baselitz '65 (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

'65 (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
Georg Baselitz '65 (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

'65 (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
Georg Baselitz Shepherd (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

Shepherd (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
Georg Baselitz Shepherd (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

Shepherd (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
Georg Baselitz Poet in Boots (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

Poet in boots (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
Georg Baselitz Painter in a coat-two stripes (Remix)

Georg Baselitz

Painter in a coat - two stripes (Remix)

2008
9500
CHF
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Kirchner - Baselitz Remix

Repetition in the woodcut

1.5.2025

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19.12.2025

Wichtrach/Bern

XXL Large format works of Modern and Contemporary Art

7.1.2025

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19.12.2025

Wichtrach/Bern

EXPRESSIVE! The nude in the Modern art

In the showroom: Expressive! The nude in contemporary art

12.4.2024

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15.6.2024

Riehen/Basel

Expressive!

Landscape in the Modern art

26.8.2023

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16.3.2024

Riehen/Basel

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner & Georg Baselitz

In dialogue

25.2.2022

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25.5.2022

Riehen/Basel

George Baselitz - Ernst Ludwig Kirchner

Works on paper

1.9.2018

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10.10.2018

Wichtrach/Bern

The Nude in Modern & Contemporary Art

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