Georgy Baselitz ( German: Georg Baselitz , real name: Hans-Georg Kern ( German: Hans-Georg Kern ); born January 23, 1938 , Deutschbazelitz ) is a German painter, graphic artist and sculptor, one of the most expensive living artists. Neo-expressionist , one of the founders of the New Wild style.
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| Birth name | Hans Georg Kern |
| Date of Birth | January 23, 1938 (81 years old) |
| Place of Birth | Deutschbazelitz |
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| Study | Graduate School of Art ( West Berlin ) |
| Style | neo-expressionism, new wild |
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Content
- 1 Biography and creativity
- 2 Recognition
- 3 notes
- 4 Literature
- 5 Links
Biography and Creativity
Hans-Georg Kern was born in 1938 in the family of an elementary school teacher [1] . Started painting in 1955, taking private lessons [2] .
In 1956 he moved to East Berlin , where he entered the Higher School of Fine Arts, but was soon expelled from school for "political immaturity" [2] . After that he moved to West Berlin , where he continued his studies at the Higher School of Art.
In 1958, after moving to West Berlin, Baselitz met his future wife Elke Kretchmar. At the same time, his own recognizable style takes shape; he writes a series of paintings, including “Uncle Bernhard” / “Onkel Bernhard.”
In 1961, he changed his name to Georg Baselitz, in memory of his hometown [3] . Together with another young artist from Saxony, Eugen Schönebeck In the same year, he organized the Pandemonium-1 exhibition in the Wilmersdorf area. At this exhibition, artists proclaimed a manifesto, contrasting their work with abstract art, which was dominant at that time [1] . Baselitz always gravitated to substantive, figurative motives, and especially appreciated the principle of art provocation, portraying figures at times in such provocative exhibitionist poses that, for example, in 1963, during the artist’s personal exhibition in the Werner & Katz gallery in Berlin, there was a scandal. Two of his paintings "The Big Night Down The Drain" ("The Big Night Down The Drain", 1962/1963) and "Naked Man" ("Naked Man", 1962) were banned for showing as obscene [1] .
The main frontier of Baselitz’s creative maturity can be considered the second half of the 1960s. At this time, the so-called “fractal paintings” appeared (from German. Frakturbildern ), where human figures and objects are divided into separate horizontally oriented segments [4] . The objects depicted act as a background for painting. The artist formulated his goal in this way: “Reality is the picture itself, but not at all what is in the picture” [5] . In 1969, in his work Forest on the Head, Baselitz expressed his rejection of substantive aspects. The paint trajectories show that Baselitz painted his paintings in the “axis movement” style.
Since the late 1960s, Baselitz’s signature technique has been the “inverted image” (image of figures upside down). Thus, he sought to overcome the primacy of content over form [3] .
In the 1970s, Baselitz hosted exhibitions in Mannheim , Hamburg , Kassel , Amsterdam , and participated in the Biennale in São Paulo . In the late 1970s, he took up sculpture. The first experience was the “Model for Sculpture” (1979/1980) - a painted sculpture made of wood. The influence of expressionism affects his sculptural works even more clearly than in his paintings [5] . In the 1980s, the artist’s fame grew; his style is becoming more aggressive.
In 1990 - the first major exhibition in East Germany (National Gallery in the Old Museum of Berlin). In 1993, Baselitz made the production of Harrison Bertwistle 's opera Punch and Judy in Amsterdam. In 1995 - large exhibitions at the Guggenheim Museum in New York , Washington and Los Angeles .
Baselitz served as professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe and West Berlin Higher Art School.
Recognition
Cavalier of the Order of Literature and Art (1989), holder of the Austrian badge of honor “For Science and Art” (2004), laureate of the Imperial Prize of Japan (2006) [6] .
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 100 artists, 1999 , p. 10.
- ↑ 1 2 IFA .
- ↑ 1 2 Guggenheim .
- ↑ Art Institue Chicago. Woodman (Waldarbeiter), 1969
- ↑ 1 2 100 artists, 1999 , p. eleven.
- ↑ Preise und Stipendien unopened (unreachable link) . Date of treatment September 22, 2016. Archived February 22, 2006.
Literature
- Baselitz / M.N. Sokolov // Ankylosis - Bank. - M .: Big Russian Encyclopedia, 2005. - P. 650. - ( Big Russian Encyclopedia : [in 35 vols.] / Ch. Ed. Yu. S. Osipov ; 2004—2017, vol. 2). - ISBN 5-85270-330-3 .
- A. Boelke-Heinrichs, A. Czock, J. Dilling, B. Esser, A. Feise. 100 artists of the XX century. - Chelyabinsk: Ural LTD, 1999. - S. 10-11. - 210 p. - ISBN 5-8029-0037-7 .
- Georg Baselitz. Köln: Benedikt Taschen, 1990
- Mason RM Georg Baselitz. Cinisello Balsamo: Silvana; Lugano: Museo d'arte moderna, Città di Lugano, 2007.
- Georg Baselitz: a retrospective. London: Royal Academy of Arts, 2007
Links
- Works and a list of exhibitions (English) . Artfacts.net. Date of treatment September 22, 2016.
- Artist Biography Tate Gallery. Date of treatment September 22, 2016.
- Georg Baselitz Guggenheim Museum. Date of treatment September 22, 2016.
- Georg Baselitz: Künstler, Maler, Bildhauer (German) (link unavailable) . Deutsche Digitale Bibliothek. Date of treatment September 22, 2016. Archived September 23, 2016.
- Detailed bio and bibliography (German) (inaccessible link) . Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen. Date of treatment September 22, 2016. Archived September 23, 2016.
- Georg Baselitz: The Heroes . Städel Museum. Date of treatment September 22, 2016.
- Norman Rosenthal. Upside-down world . The Guardian (2007). Date of treatment September 22, 2016.