Georg Baselitz: The retrospective
An unclassifiable artist, wavering between figuration, abstraction and a conceptual approach, Georg Baselitz's powerful work is inextricably linked to the artist's imagination and experience, illustrating the complexity of being a painter and an artist in post-war Germany (he is born in 1938 in the GDR).
The exhibition brings together his masterpieces of the last six decades in chronological order, revealing his most striking creative periods, including the well known Fractured compositions and the inverted motifs of 1969.
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An unclassifiable artist, wavering between figuration, abstraction and a conceptual approach, Georg Baselitz's powerful work is inextricably linked to the artist's imagination and experience, illustrating the complexity of being a painter and an artist in post-war Germany (he is born in 1938 in the GDR).
The exhibition brings together his masterpieces of the last six decades in chronological order, revealing his most striking creative periods, including the well known Fractured compositions and the inverted motifs of 1969.
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