Genre
Painting, drawing, prints, sculpture.
CV
Born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. Lives in Saxony.
(Born Hans-Georg Bruno Kern)
1956 | Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst Berlin (East) | 1957 - 1963 | Hochschule für bildende Künste Berlin (West) | 1961 - 1966 | Manifestos against Tachism and Abstract Art | since 1969 | Paints portraits and landscapes upside down;
Der Wald auf dem Kopf | 1978 - 1983 | Professorship Akademie der Bildenden Künste, Karlsruhe | 1983 - 1988
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1992 - 2003 | Taught at the Hochschule der Künste, Berlin | 1989 | Started working on the sculpture series Dresdner Frauen | 1990 | Artist book Malelade published | 2003 | Finished his self-portrait, larger-than-life sculpture |
Awards and Honours (selection) 1986 | Kaiserring Goslar | 1999 | Honorary Professorship at the Royal Academy of Arts, London | 2002 | Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris | 2004 | Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo |
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2004 | Karlsruhe, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Georg Baselitz: Malelade | | Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle, Georg Baselitz – Bilder, die den Kopf verdrehen | 2003 | Vienna, Albertina, Georg Baselitz - The Monumental Watercolours | 2001 | Valencia, IVAM, Sculpture versus Painting | 1997 | Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum, Portraits of Elke | 1996 | Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville, Retrospective | 1995 | New York, Guggenheim Museum, travelled to Los Angeles, County Museum of Arts; Washington DC, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden; Berlin, Nationalgalerie, Retrospective | 1990 | Zurich, Kunsthaus | | Dusseldorf, Kunsthalle, Retrospective | 1983 | London, Whitechapel Art Gallery; Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum; Basel, Kunsthalle, Retrospective | 1981 | New York, Xavier Fourcade | 1976 | Bern, Kunsthalle; Munich, Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Cologne, Kunsthalle, Retrospective | 1970 | Basel, Kupferstichkabinett | | Cologne, Franz Dahlem im Galeriehaus, Lindenstrasse | 1965 | Munich, Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem | 1963 | Berlin, Galerie Werner & Katz |
Group exhibitions (selections) 2004 | London, Gagosian Gallery Heddon, Drawings | | Dresden, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Weltsichten, Meisterwerke der Zeichnung, Graphik und Photographie | | Moskau, Tretjakow Galerie; Berlin, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000 | 1997 | Tübingen, Kunsthalle, Man in the Middle – Menschenbilder | | Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Expressiv! | 1989 | Cologne, Messehallen, Bilderstreit | 1982 | Berlin, Martin-Gropius Bau, Zeitgeist | 1981 | London, Royal Academy of Arts, A New Spirit in Painting | | Cologne, Messehallen, Westkunst | 1980 | Venice, Biennale, Modell für eine Skulptur, parallel to Anselm Kiefer | 1972, 1982 | Kassel, Documenta 5, 7 |
Collections
Fondation Beyeler, Basel
Kunsthaus Zürich
Kunstmuseum Bonn
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum Folkwang, Essen
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Städel, Frankfurt
Tate Modern, London |
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Photo by Benjamin Katz / Courtesy Georg Baselitz
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