Georg Baselitz

Hans-Georg Kern

Georg Baselitz was born 1938 BirthDeutschbaselitz, Germany.

Lives and works in HomeDerneburg and Imperia..

Georg Baselitz stands as one of the major figures in the history of German art of the post–war era. Notable for having persistently flown in the face of whatever artistic convention predominated at the time—initially, Social Realism, later Abstraction and Informal Art—Baselitz has been able to claim a place for the last forty years as one of the most markedly original artists on the scene.

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Georg Baselitz wurde am 23. Januar 1938 als Hans-Georg Kern in dem Dorf Deutschbaselitz in Sachsen geboren. Der Vater Johannes Kern, verheiratet mit Lieselotte, geb, Block war Lehrer, die Familie wohnte im Schulhaus. 1949 Umzug in die nahe gelegene Kreisstadt Kamenz…

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Momentan beschäftigt sich Baselitz mit Marcel Duchamp und dem Kubismus und arbeitet nach eigenen Zeichnungen aus seiner Schulzeit laut dem "Prinzip der inneren Notwendigkeit". Baselitz erhielt zahlreiche Professuren, derzeit unterrichtet er seit 1992 an der Hochschule der Künste in Berlin. Georg Baselitz lebt und arbeitet in Derneburg bei Hildesheim und Imperia an der italienischen Riviera…

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The dark of night laps at the edges of The Gleaner, a fire burns on the upper left, and a sunlike shape hovers beneath the lone figure. Yet Georg Baselitz’s monumental, somber work was painted during a decade of well-being in Germany, when the generation of the wirtschaftswunder—the economic miracle—was only interrupted in its relentless quest for stable prosperity by the occasional political scandal or terrorist attack. How does this image, so clearly a representation of an existentialist condition, address the complex issues facing postwar German art and society?…

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Georg Kern was born in East Germany and he makes use of a pseudonym, Baselitz, taken from the town of Deutschbaselitz, where he was born in 1938. With his fierce colors and rough brushstroke, Baselitz can be considered the most expressive artist of the group German artist known as ‘die Neuen Wilden’.In 1957 he moved to West Berlin. In order to concentrate better on the painterly aspects than on the depiction, Baselitz has been painting his motifs upside down since 1969…

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