Born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany

Lives and works in Basel (Switzerland), Lake Ammersee (Germany) and Imperia (Italy)
 

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Painter, sculptor, printmaker and draughtsman, one of Germany's most celebrated living artists

famous for his figurative, emotional and expressive way of painting often using vivid colours.

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Georg Baselitz has been the subject of numerous museum exhibitions including the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007); Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville, Paris (2011); Städel-Museum, Frankfurt (2016); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2016); Fondation Beyeler, Basel (2018) and Hirshhorn Museum, Washington (2018). In 2019, the Gallerie dell'Accademia, Venice, held a major retrospective exhibition - the first exhibition by a living artist at the museum.

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In 2021/2022 the Centre Pompidou, Paris, hosted an extensive Baselitz exhibition entitled Georg Baselitz: The Retrospective, spanning six decades of the artist's long and distinguished career. 

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