Georg Baselitz, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Georg Baselitz

German artist

Date of Birth: 23-Jan-1938

Place of Birth: Kamenz, Saxony, Germany

Profession: painter, sculptor, university teacher, graphic artist, printmaker

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aquarius

Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist.
In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings.
In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting.
Drawing from a myriad of influences, including art of Soviet era illustration art, the Mannerist period and African sculptures, he developed his own, distinct artistic language.He was born, as Hans-Georg Kern, in Deutschbaselitz, Germany.
He grew up amongst the suffering and demolition of World War II, and the concept of destruction plays a significant role in his life and work.
These autobiographical circumstances have therefore returned throughout his whole oeuvre.
In this context, the artist stated in an interview: "I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society.
And I didn't want to reestablish an order: I had seen enough of so-called order.
I was forced to question everything, to be 'naive', to start again." By disrupting any given orders and breaking the common conventions of perception, Baselitz has formed his personal circumstances into his guiding artistic principles.
To this day, he still inverts all his paintings, which has become his unique and most defining feature in his work.



Description	Danish photographer
Date of birth/death	18 November 1935	14 January 2018
Location of birth	Copenhagen
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