“Like wallpaper for the Old Masters, that’s what my pictures shall be,” painter Georg Baselitz said about his current show at the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna, in which he engages in a visual ...

Enigmatic figures appear in a succession of poetic poses across 13 large canvases. Sometimes separate and at other times touching, the works are part of a series of oil paintings by German painter ...

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed German artist prominent in the neo-Expressionist movement who had a penchant for provocation and was known for painting images upside down, has died. He was 88. The ...

Georg Baselitz, who died today (30 April) at age 88, was one of the most consequential German painters of the post-war era—a figure of productive contradiction whose career spanned six decades of ...

German artist Georg Baselitz poses for photographers during the vernissage of his exhibition at the Unterlinden Museum in Colmar in 2018. Photo by SEBASTIEN BOZON / AFP. German artist Georg Baselitz, ...

Along with contemporaries like Anselm Kiefer, he mounted a frontal attack on Minimalism and Conceptualism, the dominant “cool” styles of the 1970s. Georg Baselitz in 2025.Credit...Video by Laetitia ...

April 30 (Reuters) - Georg Baselitz liked to insist — sometimes as a ⁠taunt, sometimes as a shield — that he did not know how to paint. That he had "no talent." Rejected at 17 by the Dresden Academy ...

Painter and sculptor whose raw, expressive works reflected on postwar Germany and courted controversy over his 60-year career In November 1961, the residents of West Berlin woke to find their city ...

Baselitz's works often echoed the traumas of German history and are now found in some of the most prestigious public collections around the world. Photo: AFP German artist Georg Baselitz, whose ...

His death was confirmed to AFP by Ropac Gallery, which had a long-standing professional relationship with the artist. A statement provided by the gallery on Thursday said Baselitz -- who "defined ...