Donation
Georg Baselitz
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georg Baselitz and his wife, Elke, have gifted six landmark paintings to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in honor of its 150th anniversary in 2020. These works are now on view at the museum in Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn through July 18, 2021. The portraits, made in 1969, are among the first that Baselitz created using the radical strategy of inversion, in which the pictorial motif is literally turned upside down, enabling the artist to focus on painting’s possibilities, rather than the image of the sitter in direct relationship to the viewer. These portraits of the artist’s friends and associates in the German art world—the journalist Martin G. Buttig, the gallerists Franz Dahlem and Michael Werner, and the collector Karl Rinn—are deeply personal and have remained in the artist’s collection for six decades.
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Georg Baseltiz, Der werktätige Dresdener – Porträt M.G.B. (Working Man from Dresden - Portrait of M.G.B), 1969, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Gift of the Baselitz Family, 2020 © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
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Georg Baselitz
Archinto
This video takes the viewer through Georg Baselitz: Archinto, an exhibition of new and recent paintings and sculptures by the artist at Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, on view May 19, 2021–November 27, 2022. In this show, Baselitz pays homage to Venice and its rich artistic tradition, establishing art historical continuity while also signaling a rupture between the Renaissance portrait tradition and its contemporary equivalents.
Still from “Georg Baselitz: Archinto”
Public Installation
Georg Baselitz
Zero Dom
October 20, 2021–March 7, 2022
Académie des beaux-arts, Paris
Georg Baselitz’s sculpture Zero Dom (2015/2021) is installed in front of the Académie des beaux-arts, Paris, in conjunction with the artist’s retrospective at the Centre Pompidou, which is on view through March 7, 2022, and in celebration of his admission into the Académie des beaux-arts as a foreign associate member. The 9-meter-high patinated bronze sculpture features a bundle of legs in high heels, a recurring motif in the artist’s work, which he sees as a form of self-portrait.
Georg Baselitz, Zero Dom (Zero Dome), 2015/2021, installation view, Académie des beaux-arts, Paris © Georg Baselitz 2022
Donation
Georg Baselitz
Musée d’Art Moderne de Paris
Georg Baselitz has donated six paintings to the Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris, which are now on view in the special exhibition Donation d’œuvres de Georg Baselitz, through January 9, 2022. The gift testifies to the museum’s ongoing relationship with the artist since his retrospective there in 1997, followed by his sculpture exhibition in 2011.
Georg Baselitz, La tête d’Abgar, 1984, Musee d’Art Moderne de Paris © Georg Baselitz 2021. Photo: Jochen Littkemann
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