Georg Baselitz
dal 21/9/2007 al 8/12/2007
Segnalato da
21/9/2007
Georg Baselitz
Royal Academy of Arts, London
In the Main Galleries. This exhibition features over 60 paintings, together with a significant number of sculptures, prints and drawings. It provides a unique opportunity to view works produced over the five decades. It also includes some of his most recent works, as Baselitz revisits themes explored in his early career, but this time using a newer, more lyrical style.
In the Main Galleries
Georg Baselitz is one of Germany's most prolific and well-known living artists. Born in Saxony in 1938 - painter, draughtsman, printmaker and sculptor - 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.
The first major UK retrospective of his work for many years, this exhibition features over 60 paintings, together with a significant number of sculptures, prints and drawings. It provides a unique opportunity to view works produced over the five decades of Baselitz's career, from his earliest paintings, dealing with his own existential problems within German society in the post-war period, to outstanding examples of his 'Fracture' and 'Upside-Down' paintings.
The exhibition also includes some of his most recent works, as Baselitz revisits themes explored in his early career, but this time using a newer, more lyrical style.
Image: Georg Baselitz, Mit roter Fahne (With a Red Flag), 1965. Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm Private collection, Germany. Photo Frank Oleski. © Georg Baselitz
Royal Academy of Arts
Burlington House Piccadilly - London
Admission: £10 full price; £8 Registered Disabled and 60 + years; £7 NUS / ISIC cardholders; £3
12-18 years and Income Support; £2 8-11 years; 7 and under free.