#Baselitz

From ARTnews.com: Controversial Painter Georg Baselitz Knew His Venice Show Would Be His Last. He Went Out Quietly.

From Latest articles | smithsonianmag.com: After World War II, This German Artist Turned the Art World Upside Down—Literally, by Inverting His Paintings

He was thrown out of art school at the age of 18 because of his love for Picasso. The German artist who never lost his rebellious streak has died at the age of 88.

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation and known for painting images upside down, has died

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation and known for painting images upside down, has died.

The German artist was known for emotionally charged paintings and distorted views about women artists.

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, has died.

Baselitz, who famously declared he had ‘no talent’ was a leading figure in German postwar art thanks to his raw visions of the human body

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude

Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work