This handsome book reproduces all the key works of Baselitz's distinguished career, exploring his development and revealing the achievement of an artist whose concerns are derived from his experiences of postwar German society.

One of Germany's most well-known artists, Georg Baselitz paints violent and distinctive images.Over a long and productive career he has drawn inspiration from numerous sources, ranging from traditional African art,French and Italian mannerist painting and sixteenth-century printmaking to Kandinsky, Malevich, Nietzsche, Baudelaire,Beckett and Artaud. The intensity of his aggressive and often disturbing work is reminiscent of both German Expressionism and Abstract Expressionism. Colourfully painted with liberated brushwork, semi-abstract figures, animals and landscapes are frequently depicted upside down to empty them of literal meaning; the sense of hostility and isolation that they project remains distinctive to Baselitz.

This handsome book reproduces all the key works of Baselitz's distinguished career, exploring his development and revealing the achievement of an artist whose concerns are derived from his experiences of postwar German society.Texts by leading authorities deal with the philosophical preoccupations of the period and place Baselitz in the context of late twentieth-century art. They also explore the reasons behind his decision to invert his motifs, and the importance of this to our understanding of his art. Baselitz has rarely commented on his work, and a recent statement by the artist about his art and the context within which it is made is published here for the first time.

PRESIDENT'S FOREWORD

SPONSOR'S PREFACE

GEORG BASELITZ'S STATEHENT AT THE PRESS CONFERENCE FOR 'BASELITZ REMIX'

AT THE ALBERTINA, VIENNA, 17 JANUARY 2007

WHY THE PAINTER GEORG BASELITZ IS A GOOD PAINTER

FEET TOO BIG

GEORG BASELITZ - NON-CONFORMIST ON PRINCIPLE

1. MODEL FOR A SCULPTURE

2. PANDEHONIUH PAINTINGS

3. FROM OBERON TO THE HEROES

4. PANDEHONIUH DRAWINGS

5. FRACTURE

6. THE INVERTED MOTIF

7. THE 45 SERIESAND WOHENOFDRESDEN

8. PAINTINGS FROH THE LATE 1990S AND REHIX PAINTINGS

9. REHIX DRAWINGS

CHRONOLOGY

ENDNOTES

SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY

LIST OF WORKS

LENDERS TO THE EXHIBITION

PHOTOGRAPHIC ACKNOWLEDGEHENTS

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