"I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society. My background was very ordinary and rural in a place far off the beaten track."
"When I work, I always think about my past. The kinds of statements on daily politics that we see a lot in contemporary art are not my thing."
Georg Baselitz, born Hans-Georg Kern, passed away at 88. He was a significant German painter whose career spanned six decades. His work was influenced by his upbringing in post-war Germany, which he described as a 'destroyed order.' Baselitz rejected political and aesthetic expectations, leading to a unique artistic trajectory. He was expelled from the East Berlin Academy and later embraced gestural abstraction and European Expressionism, while maintaining a distinct style. Baselitz's art focused on personal history rather than contemporary political statements.
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