Baselitz Retrospective at the Centre Pompidou

Published on 16 November 2021, by Virginie Huet

"I am rough, naïve and Gothic", said Georg Baselitz, born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938 in the village of Deutschbaselitz (near Dresden), whose name he took in 1961. Three adjectives that encapsulate his considerable paintings, sculptures and engravings, presented here in eleven equally powerful sequences.

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938), Fingermalerei - Adler Finger Painting - Eagle, 1972, oil... Baselitz Retrospective at the Centre Pompidou

Georg Baselitz (b. 1938), Fingermalerei - Adler [Finger Painting - Eagle], 1972, oil on canvas, 250 x 180 cm, Bayerische Staatsgemälde-sammlungen, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, on loan from the Wittelsbacher Ausgleichsfonds .
© Georg Baselitz, 2021 Photo BPK, Berlin, Dist. RMN-GP/[image BPK]

From one end of Gallery 1 to the other, from the bodiless self-portrait G.-Kopf (1960-1961), evoking one of the Expressions of Madness (1922) listed by psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn, to Wagon-lit mit Eisenbett (2019), an oil monotype depicting…

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