GEORG BASELITZ

A prolific artist with a protean output, Georg Baselitz has rethought the conventions of a range of media in both painting and sculp ture, over the course of a career of some sixty years. Born in 1938, Baselitz was expelled from art school in East Berlin in 1956 fo r 'socio-political immaturity', and moved to the western half of the city. By the late 1950s, he had rejected the dominant tendencie s of both sides of the country and his singular achievement was to reintroduce the figure, compromised and discredited though it was by both...[Read more]