Following the success of the show held at the Royal Academy of Arts in London last season, the Museo MADRE of Naples hosts a broad retrospective exhibition dedicated to the work of German artist Georg Kern, born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, in Saxony, from whence derives his byname, Georg Baselitz.
The exhibition is a major retrospective exhibition of the work of the German artist Georg Baselitz (b. 1938, Saxony), from his earliest paintings in 1960 up to 2006. The exhibition has been created in close collaboration with Georg Baselitz himself and shows about 70 paintings and 50 drawings.
Baselitz belongs to a small group of artists who developed a new figurative art in the sixties and seventies - notably a tiny galaxy of Neo-Expressionist German artists in the Seventies, sometimes known as "Neue Wilden", who focused on deformation, the force of matter and the vibrancy of colours. They were on the front line of the debate on the relations among art, society and history, at the same time confronting the difficult question of what it means to be a German artist in the wake of National Socialism and the Holocaust.
Georg Baselitz: Nachtessen in Dresden (Supper in Dresden), detail, 1983. Oil on canvas, 280 x 450 cm. Kunsthaus Zurich. Photo Frank Oleski, © Georg Baselitz.
Photo courtesy of The Royal Academy of Arts
Baselitz is perhaps best known for painting his motifs upside-down as a strategy to liberate the subject matter. His work incorporates figures, animals, birds, landscapes and still-lifes.
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