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Georg Baselitz The Heroes
Georg Baselitz, The Modern Painter (Der moderne Maler), 1965 Oil on canvas, 162 x 130 cm Private collection © Georg Baselitz 2017 Photo: Frank Oleski, Colonia
july 14–october 22, 2017 gallery 105 • curated by petra joos George Baselitz (b. 1938) is without question one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our time. In 1965 and 1966, in a virtually explosive spurt of productivity, he developed his dramatic and paradoxical Hero paintings. Today, the forceful workgroup of The Heroes (Helden)and New Types is universally regarded as a key example of German art from the 1960s. This monographic exhibition, organized by the Städel Museum Frankfurt in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, will be the first comprehensive survey of this series, whose aggressively, defiantly painted monumental figures have lost nothing of their ambiguous, portentous, vulnerable quality. However, Baselitz was concerned here with far more than general social issues—he was also reflecting on his own position in relation to society. Establishing an ideal continuity between
past and present, the exhibition includes a selection of paintings from the Remix cycle that Georg Baselitz began working on in 2005, which heralded the Heroes and New Types dating from 2007 and 2008. Exhibition organized by the Städel Museum Frankfurt in collaboration with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao
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