Georg Baselitz Voer een
gevoel niet
een galerie.
Kies een stemming en de kamer zelf antwoordt — het licht koelt of warmt op, de sfeer verandert van tempo, en alleen de werken die dat gevoel belichamen, treden naar voren uit de duisternis. De rest verdwijnt in de schaduw.
Georg Baselitz
A Life Forged in the Shadows of History Born Hans-Georg Bruno Kern on January 23, 1938, in the small German village of Deutschbaselitz, the artist who would become known to the world as Georg Baselitz was a child of profound transition and upheaval. Growing up in the Upper Lusatia region amidst the literal and metaphorical rubble of World War II, his early consciousness was inextricably linked to themes of destruction, displacement, an
d the fractured order of a shattered society. This formative environment—marked by the loss of community and the lingering trauma of occupation—became the bedrock of his artistic vision. The devastation he witnessed did not merely provide subject matter; it instilled in him an urgent, lifelong need to question established conventions and to explore the very nature of perception through the lens of a world that had been turned upside do…
