{"title":"Georg Baselitz","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"georg-baselitz-sculptures","title":"Georg Baselitz: Sculptures","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eGeorg Baselitz (b.1938) continuously contravenes set categories and regularities in his work. The manifold meanings of his works, the allusions and pictorial references to art history, contemporary history and biography, the ironic distance and the eagerness to experiment emphasise how he ceaselessly rethinks and reinvents his painting. \u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn sculpture, in which Baselitz first began to work in 1979, he fights against harmony and symmetry just as he does in his paintings. Much like the painter Baselitz accords the greatest possible freedom to the individual brushstrokes in his paintings, the sculptor Baselitz works the wood with a chain saw, hatchet and chisel. The raw feats of strength create abrupt lines, notches and incisions in the sculpture. Sculpture, the artist has said, is a shorter path than painting to express the same problem, since sculpture is more primitive, more brutal and more unconditional. The lively evocative power of the creative means is much more directly legible and much less encoded in the medium of sculpture.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis volume is a \u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ecatalogue raisonné documenting all fifty eight sculptures created over thirty years, from 1979 to 2009.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gestalten","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46572385861890,"sku":"BK-GES-GBS-001-B","price":25.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_5997_a1b56f86-c5b2-4ce5-a4bc-6fb54ca7a9d3.jpg?v=1791727552"},{"product_id":"georg-baselitz-im-atelier","title":"Baselitz Im Atelier","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e \u003cspan\u003eGeorg Baselitz is possibly best known for his paintings of inverted figures, animals, landscapes and still-lives that emerged in 1969. Engaging these classic figurative motifs, Baselitz created upside down works in order to re-focus the viewer on the abstract qualities of his compositions rather than their representational aspects. Drawing inspiration from a broad range of influences, his novel mix of representation and abstraction allowed him to conflate the competing aesthetics of East and West Germany prevalent at the time. Of his inverted subjects, Baselitz has said: “I must take everything which has been an object of painting – landscape, the portrait and the nude, for example – and paint it upside-down. That is the way to liberate representation from content.”\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003eA group of large-scale tondos depict the artist and his wife, Elke, his most enduring subject whom he has painted numerous times throughout his career. In works like \u003cem\u003eMaria und Franz Marc\u003c\/em\u003e (2002), the figures are not positioned naturalistically in space, but float within a field of colour and pattern that is as much foreground as it is background. The gestural passages of bright, transparent colour, somewhat akin to watercolour painting, are typical of Baselitz’s work at the time.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThis is the first in a series of Baselitz exhibitions drawn from the Hall Collection that will be shown at Schloss Derneburg, which was Baselitz’s home and studio for some 32 years until its sale to Andy and Christine Hall, founders of the Hall Art Foundation, in 2006.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003eIncluding an essay by Florian Illies, texts by Georg Baselitz, Tracey Emin, and Julian Schnabel, and a foreword by Andy Hall.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003ePublished on the occasion of the exhibition\u003cspan\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\u003cem\u003eBaselitz in the Studio\u003c\/em\u003e, Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Germany, 2023-2024.\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Hall Art Foundation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46781715185922,"sku":"BK-HAF-GBIA-001-I","price":35.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0401\/6226\/3204\/files\/IMG_1918_3320798c-8c2d-4ad0-a4ec-6748987b909f.jpg?v=1791727533"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.booksaboutart.co.uk\/collections\/georg-baselitz.oembed","provider":"Books About Art","version":"1.0","type":"link"}