San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
(Exhibition catalog)
2016Block, Judy and Suzanne Stein, Editors
360 pages (color)
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1938 Deutschbaselitz, Saxony - 2026. Known for: Portraits abstract figuration, neo-expressionist.
George Baselitz was born to a school-teacher couple as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony on January 23, 1938. He started calling himself after his hometown at the age of 18 in 1956. He was... Read full biography
George Baselitz was born to a school-teacher couple as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony on January 23, 1938. He started calling himself after his hometown at the age of 18 in 1956. He was educated at Volksschule and Gymnasium, Kamenz until 1955. He studied art at the Kunstakademie, East... Read full biography
George Baselitz was born to a school-teacher couple as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony on January 23, 1938. He started calling himself after his hometown at the age of 18 in 1956. He was educated at Volksschule and Gymnasium, Kamenz until 1955. He studied art at the Kunstakademie, East Berlin 1956-57, under Hans Trier, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin from 1957 to 1964. He was married in 1962 and has two sons, Daniel and Anton. His wife, Elke, has been his most enduring model for... Read full biography
George Baselitz was born to a school-teacher couple as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony on January 23, 1938. He started calling himself after his hometown at the age of 18 in 1956. He was educated at Volksschule and Gymnasium, Kamenz until 1955. He studied art at the Kunstakademie, East Berlin 1956-57, under Hans Trier, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin from 1957 to 1964. He was married in 1962 and has two sons, Daniel and Anton. His wife, Elke, has been his most enduring model for over thirty years. It was at the East Berlin Academy of Fine Arts (Kunstakademie) that Baselitz began thinking independently. He recounts that he started seeing through the propaganda behind the building of the Berlin Wall, and the East German workers'... Read full biography
George Baselitz was born to a school-teacher couple as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony on January 23, 1938. He started calling himself after his hometown at the age of 18 in 1956. He was educated at Volksschule and Gymnasium, Kamenz until 1955. He studied art at the Kunstakademie, East Berlin 1956-57, under Hans Trier, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin from 1957 to 1964. He was married in 1962 and has two sons, Daniel and Anton. His wife, Elke, has been his most enduring model for over thirty years. It was at the East Berlin Academy of Fine Arts (Kunstakademie) that Baselitz began thinking independently. He recounts that he started seeing through the propaganda behind the building of the Berlin Wall, and the East German workers' uprising, etc. He began realizing that the whole system was a fraud, a house of cards based on deception a... Read full biography
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 360 Views on the Collection
2016Vancouver Collects (Vancouver Art Gallery)
2001
(Exhibition catalog)Thom, Ian et al159 pages (color)Accents on Artists A fact-filled pronunciation guide. Over 800 artist’s names you should know…
1996Barbara and Peter Toohil363 pages (color)Broken Music: Artists' Recordworks
1989Block, Ursula and Michael Glasmeier278 pages (color)Stations (Centre international d'art contemporain de Montréal)
1988
(Exhibition catalog)Bellemare et al207 pages (color)The International Trans-avantgarde
1982Oliva, Achille Bonito320 pages (color)