Georg Baselitz : ce qu'il faut savoir

Georg Baselitz en Austria fait l'actualité ce jeudi. Selon NDTV, Georg Baselitz liked to insist - sometimes as a taunt, sometimes as a shield - that he did not know how to paint.

Les faits

• Georg Baselitz liked to insist - sometimes as a taunt, sometimes as a shield - that he did not know how to paint.
• Georg Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Bruno Kern on January 23, 1938, in the Saxon village of Deutschbaselitz, a name he later adopted.
• But Baselitz's most recognisable works came in 1969, when he began painting motifs upside down.
• The inversions made Baselitz an international figure in the 1970s and 1980s, as the market and institutions that once treated him as scandalous increasingly positioned him as a pillar of European postwar art.
• From that rebellion, Baselitz forged a career that made the child of Nazi Germany, schooled under Soviet communism, into one of the defining artists of postwar Germany.

L'essentiel

NDTV indique que Georg Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Bruno Kern on January 23, 1938, in the Saxon village of Deutschbaselitz, a name he later adopted. D'après NDTV, But Baselitz's most recognisable works came in 1969, when he began painting motifs upside down. Comme le souligne NDTV, the inversions made Baselitz an international figure in the 1970s and 1980s, as the market and institutions that once treated him as scandalous increasingly positioned him as a pillar of European postwar art. Selon NDTV, From that rebellion, Baselitz forged a career that made the child of Nazi Germany, schooled under Soviet communism, into one of the defining artists of postwar Germany.

Les chiffres

NDTV indique que Rejected at 17 by the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts, he talked his way into an academy in East Berlin only to be expelled two semesters later for "sociopolitical immaturity". D'après NDTV, the painter and sculptor, known for his depictions of raw bodies and inverted landscapes, has died at the age of 88, Germany's Die Welt newspaper reported on Thursday. Comme le souligne NDTV, Inexplicably, he recorded the birth of none of his other four children, the Sachsische Zeitung daily reported in 2018. Selon NDTV, At a 1963 solo show in Berlin, authorities seized two of his paintings - "The Big Night Down the Drain" and "The Naked Man" - on obscenity grounds.

Le contexte

Selon NDTV, his father, a village schoolteacher and Nazi Party member, recorded Hans-Georg's birth in his diary. NDTV indique que Baselitz's mother took over his duties at the school. D'après NDTV, Baselitz spent his childhood amid the unforgiving discipline of Nazi Germany, and his adolescence amid the rubble and ideological re-education of the country's Soviet occupation zone. Comme le souligne NDTV, But rather than imitate an American style, Baselitz turned back to German sources, drawing on expressionism, folk traditions and imagery often dismissed by critics as ugly or even "degenerate".

Recherches associées

Les recherches associées qui dominent la conversation : Georg Baselitz, peintre et sculpteur allemand, figure phare de l’expressionnisme, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans • Mort de l’artiste allemand Georg Baselitz, maitre de l’expressionnisme • Disparition. Le graveur et sculpteur allemand Georg Baselitz est mort à l'âge de 88 ans • Mort de l’artiste allemand Georg Baselitz à l’âge de 88 ans • Mort de l’artiste Georg Baselitz, à l'âge de 88 ans • L'artiste Georg Baselitz est mort à l'âge de 88 ans.

À retenir

• The inversions made Baselitz an international figure in the 1970s and 1980s, as the market and institutions that once treated him as scandalous increasingly positioned him as a pillar of European postwar art.
• His father, a village schoolteacher and Nazi Party member, recorded Hans-Georg's birth in his diary.
• An object painted upside down is suitable for painting because it is unsuitable as an object," Baselitz said.
• Recherches qui explosent : Georg Baselitz, peintre et sculpteur allemand, figure phare de l’expressionnisme, est mort à l’âge de 88 ans, Mort de l’artiste allemand Georg Baselitz, maitre de l’expressionnisme, Disparition. Le graveur et sculpteur allemand Georg Baselitz est mort à l'âge de 88 ans, Mort de l’artiste allemand Georg Baselitz à l’âge de 88 ans.