Georg Baselitz

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Georg Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor known for his expressive, often inverted figurative works that challenged postwar artistic conventions.

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Georg Baselitz canonical 6

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Predicate Object
instanceOf human
painter
sculptor
visual artist
artisticTechnique inverting motifs upside down
awardReceived Officier de la Légion d'honneur
surface form: Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)

Praemium Imperiale
surface form: Praemium Imperiale for painting

Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen
birthName Hans-Georg Kern
countryOfCitizenship Germany
dateOfBirth 1938-01-23
educatedAt Berlin University of the Arts
surface form: Hochschule der Künste Berlin

Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst Berlin-Weissensee
fieldOfWork painting
sculpture
genre figurative painting
sculpture
hasWorkExhibitedAt Documenta (Kassel)
Venice Biennale
hasWorkInCollection Centre Pompidou
surface form: Centre Pompidou, Paris

Museum of Modern Art
surface form: Museum of Modern Art, New York

Tate Modern
surface form: Tate, London
influenced Neo-Expressionism
surface form: Neo-Expressionist painters

contemporary German painting
influencedBy Abstract expressionism
surface form: Abstract Expressionism

Art Brut
Expressionism
surface form: German Expressionism
movement Expressionism
surface form: German Expressionism (influenced by)

Neo-Expressionism
name Georg Baselitz self-link
nationality German
notableFor challenging postwar artistic conventions
expressive figurative art
inverted figurative paintings
notableWork Der Wald auf dem Kopf
Die Helden (The Heroes) series
Die große Nacht im Eimer
Fracture paintings
occupation painter
printmaker
sculptor
placeOfBirth Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany
positionHeld professor at Hochschule der Künste Berlin
professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe
series Fracture (Frakturbilder) series
Helden (Heroes) series
upside-down paintings
styleCharacteristic distorted human figures
monumental scale works
raw, gestural brushwork
thematicFocus German postwar identity
fragmentation of the body
trauma and memory

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The Phillips Collection hasWorkBy Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz name Georg Baselitz self-link
Kaiserring Goslar notableRecipient Georg Baselitz
Neue Wilde hasNotableArtist Georg Baselitz