Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitzis a German painter. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American critics as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionArtist
Date of Birth23 January 1938
CountryGermany
Georg Baselitz quotes about
attitude responsibility artist
The artist is not responsible to any one. His social role is asocial... his only responsibility consists in an attitude to the work he does.
reality
The reality is the picture, it is most certainly not in the picture.
exhibitions upside-down surface
I hang my work upside down to emphasize surface.
communication artist information
There is no communication with any public whatsoever. The artist can ask no question, and he makes no statement; he offers no information, and his work cannot be used. It is the end product which counts.
monsters want tradition
I dont want to create a monster; I want to make something which is new, exceptional, something that only I do...something that references tradition, but is still new.
father europe facts
I had always loved expressionist painting, like every European. In fact I admired it all the more because these were precisely the paintings despised by my father's generation.
upside-down painting suitable
An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object.
fresh-start painting starting
I love my old paintings as postulates as fresh starting points but I have to destroy them. I have to make a new manifesto.
unique simple important
I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.