Georg Baselitz

Baselitz's newest paintings, drawings and sculpture continues his lifelong interrogation of portraiture and the act of art-making itself This trilingual catalog features monumental paintings, intimate works on paper and a bronze sculpture by German artist Georg Baselitz (born 1938), centering around his own self-portraits as well as depictions of his wife and longtime muse Elke.

Georg Baselitz has been exploring, challenging and redefining contemporary art for over six decades, mainly via the medium of paint. A cornerstone of this task has been his complex exchange with historical and contemporary art. Georg Baselitz: Feet First illuminates the German artist’s relationship to the art of Edvard Munch, which he has been in artistic dialogue with since the 1960s. This richly illustrated book includes writings by exhi­bition curator Jon-Ove Steihaug, Christian Weikop, Sverre Wyller and Baselitz himself, as well as a longer conversation with the artist.

Recent material experimentations from an acclaimed master of Neo-Expressionist figurative paintingPublished to accompany his 2023 exhibition at Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, this stunning clothbound catalog gathers five recent series of paintings by the acclaimed German artist Georg Baselitz (born 1938), best known for his Neo-Expressionist works that were hugely influential in redefining 20th-century figurative art. Realized between 2020 and 2021, the paintings are characterized by the artist's novel use of materials, including a new transfer method as well as the unprecedented integration of fabric into his works, both marking significant developments in Baselitz's technique. Building upon his legacy as an iconic and pioneering figure in early Neo-Expressionism, these new works create, both conceptually and materially, a distinctive universe where the logic of collage coalesces with painting. The inventive and materially rich works on canvas are accompanied by a group of ink drawings.

An exploration by an artist and writer duo of a fundamental constant in the history of humankind: rage, and its impact on the world. Rage and obstinacy are close relatives—and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two media: ink and watercolor on paper, and the written word. The long history of humankind is also a history of rage, fury, and wrath. In this book, Baselitz and Kluge explore the dynamism of rage and its potential to rapidly grow and erupt into blazing protests, revolution, and war. The authors also reflect the melancholy archetype of the Western hero (and his deconstruction) against the very different heroic ethos of the Japanese antipodes. More powerful than rage, they argue, is wit, as displayed in the work of Japanese master painter Katsushika Hokusai. In this volume, Baselitz repeatedly draws an image of Hokusai, depicting him with an outstretched finger, as if pointing towards Europe in a mixture of rage, wrath, irony, and laughter, all-too-fleetingly evident in his expression. A unique collaboration between two of the world’s leading intellectuals, World-Changing Rage will leave every reader with a deeper appreciation of the human condition.

New portraits by one of the foremost painters of our timeGerman painter Georg Baselitz (born 1938) presents a new series of large-scale canvases featuring portraits of his wife, Elke, and a new sanguine ink series. In the title, Baselitz references the scene of Picasso's Les Demoiselles d'Avignon through a characteristically humorous chain of associations.

I denne boken har de fem markante samtidskunstnere Marlene Dumas, Terje Nicolaisen, Nalini Malani, Georg Baselitz og Tracey Emin satt sammen hvert sitt utvalg av Edvard Munchs tegninger. Munch tegnet mer eller mindre daglig gjennom et langt liv og etterlot seg rundt 7700 tegninger. Hvert av de fem utvalgene gir en unik inngang til dette rike materialet og presenteres sammen med et intervju, der kunstnerne reflekterer rundt Munchs tegninger og sitt eget kunstnerskap.

The painting partisan - this is the term Cornelius Tittel recently used to describe Georg Baselitz in a review (November 3, 2021) in Die Welt in connection with the major retrospective that has just opened at the Centre Pompidou. For Heiner M ller in a conversation (1991) with Alexander Kluge, the partisan, in a modern, a technocratically defined structure, was like a dog on the highway. And it is within this outsider status that Tittel sees the artist Georg Baselitz mature over several decades into a monolith whom the Acad mie des Beaux-Arts has now accepted as the sole German among its members. The sword presented to him at the formal ceremony was meant to symbolize his immortality. It was actually no longer needed though. We are pleased to announce, together with the editors Rainer Michael Mason and Detelv Gretenkort, that volume IV of the Graphic Works (1989-1992) will be published in the spring of 2022; it contains works no. 718-1010. Volume III had already established that Georg Baselitz's graphic oeuvre stands on an equal footing with his paintings and sculptural work.

"There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who ­painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembered it as a self-portrait of Rousseau with ­Madame Rousseau. Marie Laurencin was Apollinaire's muse, and Cl mence Rousseau was Rousseau's muse. As it happens, Franz Marc painted a portrait of Rousseau for Der Blaue Reiter, and Picasso also had a self-portrait by Henri. There's a quite intimate photograph, taken by Andr Gom s, of Picasso holding Rousseau's self-portrait in his right hand and the portrait of Rousseau's wife in his left hand. Picasso, that constructor of novel objects and ­audacious paintings, loved Rousseau, the painter of things in rigidified grace. Even Rousseau's gaze in his self-portrait is stiff, directed at his own work, in which objects that we ourselves are familiar with look different--Gothic, Byzantine, somehow not the way we are used to seeing them. (...)" --Georg Baselitz

Rage and obstinacy are close relatives--and fundamental categories in the work of both Georg Baselitz and Alexander Kluge. In World-Changing Rage, these two accomplished German creators explore links and fractures between two cultures through two media: ink and watercolour on paper, and the written word. The long history of humankind is also a history of rage, fury, wrath. In this book, Baselitz and Kluge explore the dynamism of rage and its potential to rapidly grow and erupt into blazing protests, revolution, and war. The authors also reflect the melancholy archetype of the Western hero (and his deconstruction) against the very different heroic ethos of the Japanese antipodes. More powerful than rage, they argue, is wit, as displayed in the work of Japanese master painter Katsushika Hokusai. In this volume, Baselitz repeatedly draws an image of Hokusai, depicting him with an outstretched finger, as if pointing towards Europe in a mixture of rage, wrath, irony and laughter, all-too-fleetingly evident in his expression. A unique collaboration between two of the world's leading intellectuals, World-Changing Rage will leave every reader with a deeper appreciation of the human condition.