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Georg Baselitz, one of the most influential artists of our time, whose virtuosity and productivity never ceases to amaze, is represented in the Collection Frieder Burda with fourteen paintings and two sculptures, which amply demonstrate Baselitz’s artistic development since 1963.

In the 1960s Baselitz rebelled against the dominant academic dogma of nonobjective art, in terms of both painting style and subject matter. In his powerful, expressive Heroes paintings the artist, in the mid-1960s, reflected on both his inner emotional state as well as on the state of the postwar generation. Since then the formal aspects of his painting have increasingly moved into the foreground, and the artistic exploration of color and design led, in 1966, to the Fracture paintings in which the motives were cut up, segmented, and re-composed. In 1969, Baselitz turned the image on its head—in the truest sense of the word; as a result, the perception is diverted away from the image and directed towards the formal and color gestalt of the painted surface. In the 1990s, these powerful works were followed by a new mode of expression, which resulted in works with airy colorfulness and unaccustomed lightness. From 2005, in the series Remix, which is characterized by a new brightness of the colors, the artist revisits important themes in his artistic development and subjects them to a virtuoso reinterpretation.

The works by Georg Baselitz are presented parallel to the the major Arnulf Rainer retrospective. Thus, the visitor is able to contrast and compare the work of both artists.