Georg Baselitz, Red Ear, 1985, Autographed Limited Edition Color Woodcut

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Georg Baselitz

Deutschbaselitz 1938

Red Ear, 1985

Color woodcut

Signed and dated in pencil (19)85 lower right

Limited edition number … Read more Georg Baselitz

Deutschbaselitz 1938

Red Ear, 1985

Color woodcut

Signed and dated in pencil (19)85 lower right

Limited edition number lower left

Image size: 64.8 x 48.9 cm

Sheet size: 85.7 x 61.3 cm

Frame size: 92 x 68 cm

Catalogue Raisonné No. 122

Good condition (see photos)

Limited edition of only 15 copies

Authenticity will be confirmed in writing.

The painter Georg Baselitz was born Hans Georg Kern on January 23, 1938, in Deutschbaselitz (Upper Lusatia/Saxony). When the artist moved to West Berlin in 1958, he adopted the pseudonym Georg Baselitz, after his birthplace.

from 1956, Baselitz studied at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin, where his professors included Walter Womacka and Herbert Behrens-Hangler. He was friends with the painters Peter Graf and Ralf Winkler (i.e., A.R. Penck). After two semesters, Baselitz was expelled from the academy in 1957 for "socio-political immaturity." He continued his studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in West Berlin under the abstract painter Hann Trier.

Even his early works display an expressive and figurative style. Georg Baselitz explored the theme of anamorphosis and also engaged with the art of the mentally ill, which he encountered in the Prinzhorn Collection. In 1961/62, he produced two manifestos ("1. Pandemonium," "2. Pandemonium") in which, together with Eugen Schönebeck, he formulated a painterly position rooted in Symbolism.

In 1963, his first solo exhibition took place at the Werner & Katz Gallery in Berlin. The paintings "The Big Night Down the Drain" and "The Naked Man" were deemed so sexually offensive that they were confiscated by the public prosecutor's office.

In 1965, Georg Baselitz received a scholarship to the Villa Romana in Florence, where he created the "Heroes" series. This series also includes the painting "The Great Friends," which Baselitz commented on in his third essay, "Why the Painting 'The Great Friends' Is a Good Painting!" in 1966.

In 1966, the painter moved to Osthofen near Worms. In his works, he continued to explore ways of deconstructing the pictorial motif. The "Fracture" paintings ultimately led to Georg Baselitz rotating the pictorial motif 180 degrees and turning it upside down. This inversion method became his signature style and made Baselitz famous. It allowed him to achieve the greatest possible autonomy of form and color without abandoning the subject matter.

In addition to his paintings, Georg Baselitz also produced a substantial body of prints. In the 1960s, he worked primarily with woodcuts, and in the 1970s, he created large-format linocuts. Around 1979/80, he began creating sculptural works in wood, figures and heads, which he roughly hews and paints.

from 2005 onward, he created the "Remix" series, in which he re-painted some of his works, not as copies, but as the same motifs set in a new era, against a changed historical backdrop. The exhibition "Baselix Remix" was shown at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich in 2006.

Georg Baselitz lives and works in Derneburg and Italy. This piece has an attribution mark,
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