Georg Baselitz. The Donation
Georg Baselitz (*1938) has donated six paintings and a sculpture dating from 2008 to 2017 in honor of H.R.H. Duke Franz of Bavaria.
The donation is the expression of a decades-long bond between the internationally recognized German artist, one of his earliest collectors and long-time supporter, and the museum staff. The works comprising this donation offer an insight into Georg Baselitz鈥檚 preoccupation with the subject of late work. 鈥楶iet in kurzer Hose (Remix)鈥�(Piet in Shorts (Remix), 2008) is the temporal and stylistic link to the existing collection. It is a remix of the scandalous image 鈥楧ie gro脽e Nacht im Eimer鈥�(The Big Night Down the Drain, 1962/63) and thus also of some of Baselitz鈥檚 core themes, including the confrontation with collective and individual memory. In the picture Baselitz intertwines ideologically charged motifs such as the swastika or the skull with a Hitler hairstyle with his free rendering of Piet Mondrian鈥檚 iconic abstraction as well as own pictorial subjects. Past and present, the creative and the destructive, the private and the public combine to form a web that challenges the viewer in ever new ways. Baselitz鈥檚 ingenious treatment of a visual cosmos that was passed on by previous generations of artists also informs 鈥榃illem taucht auf鈥� (Willem Appears, 2013) and 鈥榃illem geht ab鈥� (Willem Leaves, 2014), in which he paraphrases - in the style of painting and the titles - the work of one of his influences, the artist Willem de Kooning, while idiosyncratically breaking away from him at the same time.
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Georg Baselitz (*1938) has donated six paintings and a sculpture dating from 2008 to 2017 in honor of H.R.H. Duke Franz of Bavaria.
The donation is the expression of a decades-long bond between the internationally recognized German artist, one of his earliest collectors and long-time supporter, and the museum staff. The works comprising this donation offer an insight into Georg Baselitz鈥檚 preoccupation with the subject of late work. 鈥楶iet in kurzer Hose (Remix)鈥�(Piet in Shorts (Remix), 2008) is the temporal and stylistic link to the existing collection. It is a remix of the scandalous image 鈥楧ie gro脽e Nacht im Eimer鈥�(The Big Night Down the Drain, 1962/63) and thus also of some of Baselitz鈥檚 core themes, including the confrontation with collective and individual memory. In the picture Baselitz intertwines ideologically charged motifs such as the swastika or the skull with a Hitler hairstyle with his free rendering of Piet Mondrian鈥檚 iconic abstraction as well as own pictorial subjects. Past and present, the creative and the destructive, the private and the public combine to form a web that challenges the viewer in ever new ways. Baselitz鈥檚 ingenious treatment of a visual cosmos that was passed on by previous generations of artists also informs 鈥榃illem taucht auf鈥� (Willem Appears, 2013) and 鈥榃illem geht ab鈥� (Willem Leaves, 2014), in which he paraphrases - in the style of painting and the titles - the work of one of his influences, the artist Willem de Kooning, while idiosyncratically breaking away from him at the same time.
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