Baselitz, Georg

Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz: A Retrospective

Georg Baselitz paints violent and distinctive imagery that is reminiscent stylistically of both German and American Expressionism. To the public he is the painter of upside-down pictures. This extensively illustrated book—which reproduces all the major works from Baselitz’s distinguished career—explores his development, revealing an artist whose concerns are derived from his experiences of post-war German society.

Essays deal with the philosophical preoccupations of the period and place the artist in the context of late twentieth-century art. The book also examines why the artist paints upside down and the importance of this to our understanding of his art. Baselitz is an artist who has rarely commented about his work. This volume presents for the first time his thoughts about his art and the context within which it is made.

Georg Baselitz: Works from the 1960s & 1970s

This beautifully designed catalogue, published to accompany the Winter 2007 exhibition of this important German neo-Expressionist's work at Nyehaus, New York, comes housed in a stunning monochrome cobalt-blue linen-bound clamshell box with the artist's name embossed upside down and inside out on the front cover. Inside is a Coptic-stitched monograph, exquisitely printed on lush paper, which features a selection of Baselitz's work from the 1960s and 70s--including oils on canvas, pastels, gouaches, and works in graphite, ink, crayon and other media. Designed by the prominent New York firm Helicopter, the book's cover typography conveys the characteristic disorientation that Baselitz's work induces when he inverts his work's subject matter in order to free up its content. Inside, texts are printed in both English and German, while the typefaces address Baselitz's struggle to reconcile his conservative German heritage with his contemporary sensibilities as an artist. Essay by Siegfreid Gohr, scholar and friend of the artist.

Georg Baselitz [ILLUSTRATED]

George Baselitz

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 timeââ¬âinitially, Social Realism, later Abstraction and Informal Artââ¬âBaselitz has been able to claim a place for the last forty years as one of the most markedly original artists on the scene. Erroneously held to be an exponent of neo-Expressionism, Baselitz possesses a highly complex artistic personality, which stems from his willingness to freely experiment with painting, and move beyond the restrictions of formal categories and content-based mores. Vaunting texts written by Baselitz himself, a wealth of detailed information, and an exceptionally rich body of images, this monograph forms an exhaustive documentation of the artist's oeuvre. The volume is further embellished by a significant essay by Michael Auping, Chief Curator of the Modern Art Museum at Fort Worth (Texas) and author of numerous monographs on the major artists of our times. It has been edited by Detlev Gretenkort, a leading expert on the work of Baselitz.

Georg Baselitz: The Bridge Ghost's Supper

This oversized collection of new works on paper by the German neo-Expressionist Georg Baselitz is beautifully printed on deluxe paper and includes a tipped in centerfold on glossy paper. Here Baselitz revisits and remixes early works in fresh new ways. "As a Saxonian you always see ghosts. That is over."

Georg Baselitz: Zero Fur Den Maler

Georg Baselitz: New Paintings: September 11-October 10, 1998, Pacewildenstein

Georg Baselitz: Pastels, Watercolors, Drawings

Introduction by Franz Dahlem. 52 pages. 26 plates (18 color, 8 b&w). Wraps.

8 3/4 x 6 7/8 inches; 22.5 x 17.5 cm

22 works on paper made between 1988 and 1991, with an introduction, written in letter form, by Baselitz’s friend, the critic Franz Dahlem.

George Baselitz: Pastels