Born in Deutschbaselitz in Saxony (former RDA), in 1938.
Lives and works in Munich.
From the very beginning, his work expresses reactions on traumas and tragedies closely linked with the history of Germany.
Since the 1960s, the works of Baselitz have been a subject of numerous individual and collective international exhibitions. Georg Baselitz represents Germany in 1980 at the Venise Biennial, is present at documenta 5,6,7, in 1972,1977 and 1982 in Kassel.
The Museum Solomon R Guggenheim in New York presents the first retrospective of engravings in 1995, exhibited afterwards at Angeles County Museum, at Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C., at Nationalgalerie in Berlin and Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris. The Royal Academy of Art in London organises another significant retrospective in 2007. From September 2011 until June 2012, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris displays a retrospective of his sculptured work, followed in 2013 by a vast retrospective at the occasion of the 75th birthday of the artist, at the Essl Museum in Vienna.
In 2015, Georg Baselitz participated in the exhibition All The World's Futures at the Arsenale during the 56th Venice Biennale.
Painter, sculptor and engraver. Georg Baselitz is today considered one of the most talented engravers of his generation. The Galerie Catherine Putman edits his works in France since 1997.
« I do paintings and engravings in parallel, without giving them different values because they are just two simultanous activities. What I do in my paintings exists in my engravings, it depends on them. »
Georg Baselitz, in Grabados Gravures Prints 1964-1990, Cabinet des estampes, Genève - Ivam, Valence - Tate Gallery, Londres, 1991.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS (SELECTION)
2023
"La boussole indique le nord", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
"Georg Baselitz zum 85. Geburtstag", Museum Würth 2, Künzelsau, Germany
2022
"Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings", The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, USA
"Georg Baselitz: New Drawings Part II", Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2021
"Baselitz – La rétrospective", Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
"Georg Baselitz: New Drawings", Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
"Georg Baselitz: Archinto", Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
"Georg Baselitz: Vedova accendi la luce", Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy
2019
"Georg Baselitz – Time", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
"Uraufführung eines Bildes", Kunstfest Weimar, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Weimar, Germany
"Georg Baselitz – 'Veteran' – Arbeiten auf Papier", Galerie Boisserée, Köln, Germany
"EState con Baselitz – Incisioni 1964–2015", Galleria Oreste Bellinzona, Milan, Italy
"Die Schenkung", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
"Georg Baselitz – Devotion", Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK-Uni
Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, Italy
"Baselitz im Dialog mit den Zittauer Fastentüchern", Kunsthistorisches Museum Franziskanerkloster, Zittau, Germany
"Georg Baselitz – Devotion", Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York, USA
2018
Georg Baselitz, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
"Georg Baselitz, Works on paper", Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
2017
"Georg Baselitz, Descente", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
"Georg Baselitz, Pied à terre", Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
"Georg Baselitz, Preview with Review", Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
"Georg Baselitz: Gli Eroi", Palazzo delle Expozioni, Rome, Italy
2016
"Georg Baselitz: The Heroes",Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"Georg Baselitz: Die Helden", Städel-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
"Georg Baselitz: Mit Richard unterwegs", Druckgrafik 1996-2016, Schloss Dachau, Dachau, Germany
"Georg Baselitz - Emilio Vedova", Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
"Georg Baselitz - Albert Oehlen", Kunstverein Reutlingen, Reutlingen, Germany
"Experiment and Renewal", Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
"Georg Baselitz: Malelade", Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, Switzerland
"Works on Paper", Galerie Boiserée, Cologne, Germany
"Visit from Hokusai", Gagosian Gallery Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland
Gagosian Gallery New York, USA
"Wir fahren aus [We're off]", White Cube Gallery, London, UK
2015
"Georg Baselit, Bitte kommen Sie nach vorn", Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
"GEORG BASELITZ. HOW IT BEGAN? Peintures et oeuvres graphiques des vingt dernières années", Marble Palace, Russian Museum, St. Petersbourg, Russie
"Georg Baselitz & Emilio Vedova", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Autriche
Works from the Collection Frieder Burda, Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden, Allemagne
2014
"Georg Baselitz - Nouvelles aquarelles et dessins", Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
"Artist Rooms: Georg Baselitz", New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
"Vanitas", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Georg Baselitz - Straßenbild", De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
"Georg Baselitz - Tierstücke" : nicht von dieser Welt, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
"Farewell Bill", Gagosian Gallery, Londres, UK
2013
"Le côté sombre", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
BDM Gruppe, Victoria and Albert Museum, John Madjeski Garden, Londres, UK
"Georg Baselitz - Aus der Sammlung", Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
"Georg Baselitz - Eugène Leroy, le récit de condensation", MUba Eugène Leroy de la Ville de Tourcoing, France
"Georg Baselitz - Besuch bei Ernst Ludwig", Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
"Georg Baselitz - Werke von 1968 bis 2012", ESSL Museum, Vienne, Austria
"Romantiker kaputt", Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, Germany
Georg Baselitz - Hintergrundgeschichten, SMD Schloß, Dresden, Germany
"Baselitz - Tier", Landschaft, Ort, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Albertina | Schausammlung, Vienne, Austria
"Georg Baselitz - Remix", Galleria Bellinzona, Milan Italy
2012
"Romantiker kaputt", Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
"Das Negativ - New Works", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"Georg Baselitz - Berliner Jahre, Bilder aus der Sammlung Baselitz", Villa Schöningen, Potsdam, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Gagosian Gallery, New York, USA
"Georg Baselitz - Das Naturmotiv", Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Prinzenpalais, Oldenburg, Germany
2011
"Baselitz sculpteur", Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
"Gravures", Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
"25 Jahre Meisterwerke", Niels Borch Jensen Galerie & Verlag, Berlin, Germany
"Le Monde à l'envers, tel qu'il est", Cabinet des estampes et des dessins de Liège, Belgium
2010
"Big Night (Remix)", Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
"Georg Baselitz - Paintings from the First Decade", Pinacothèque de Sao Paulo, Brazil
2009
Rétrospective, Musée Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2008
"Remix", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Museo d'arte contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRE), Naples, Italy
"Druckgraphik 1944 - 1983", Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2007
"Georg Baselitz: Une rétrospective", Royal Academy of Arts, Londres , UK
Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano, Italy
"The Bridge Ghost's Supper", Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Les tableaux russes, Musée d' Art Moderne, St. Étienne, France
"Remix", Albertina Musuem, Vienne, Austria
2006
Retrospective, Louisiana Museum, Copenhague, Denmark
"Baselitz, Une seule passion, la peinture", Fondation de l'Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
"Remix", Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
"Georg Baselitz - Works on Paper", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Lüpertz, A.R. Penck, Shanghai Zendai, China
Georg Baselitz, Musée d'art moderne, Shanghai, China
2005
"Georg Baselitz. Aquarelle", Galerie Fred Jahn, Münich, Germany
"Georg Baselitz. Andere Ansichten", Galerie Terminus, Münich, Germany
2004
"Monumental Watercolours", Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Georg Baselitz: Malelade", Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
"Georg Baselitz - Bilder, die den Kopf verdrehen", Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der "Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany
"Upside down, boy you turn me. Baselitz in der Hess Collection", Kunstmuseum Bern, Berne, Germany
"Georg Baselitz. Neue Arbeiten", Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
2003
"Georg Baselitz - Aquarelles monumentales", Musée de l'Albertina, Vienne, Austria
2001
"Sculpture versus Painting", IVAM, Valence, France
1999
"Les gravures monumentales de Georg Baselitz 1977-1999", Musée Rath, Genève, Switzerland
1997
"Georg Baselitz: Portraits of Elke", Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, USA
1996
Rétrospective, Musée d'Art Moderne de la ville de Paris, France
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