Albertinum: Focus Albertinum: Georg Baselitz

gelbe Personen auf dem Kopf vor schwarzem Hintergrund

Focus Albertinum: Georg Baselitz

On the occasion of the 85th anniversary of the artist's birth, the Albertinum will be showing works by Georg Baselitz from its own holdings. Supplemented by works from the Günther and Annemarie Gercken Foundation, which is based at the SKD, seven paintings from different creative periods of the Saxon world star can be seen in the small presentation.

Exhibition Site Albertinum

DATES 22/08/2023—07/01/2024

Born and raised in Deutschbaselitz near Kamenz, Georg Baselitz (* 1938 as Georg Kern) visited the Dresden Art Collections as a teenager in the mid-1950s, which he describes in a 2013 interview (Georg Baselitz. Background Stories, SKD 2013, p. 45ff) as "the foundation" for his own creative work. Here he continues: "As an artist, you work against the images that already exist, but also with them". These references are also reflected in some of the works shown: "Statement" (1999), for example, refers to Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" (1512/13), "The Bridge Ghost's Supper" (2006) to the artists of the BRÜCKE.

**Georg Baselitz, Frauenkopf und Tannen, 1985** Öl auf Leinwand, 250 x 250 cm

Rind mit Krug auf dem Rücken — **Georg Baselitz, Ländlicher Realismus, Schema und Illustration, 1968** Öl auf Leinwand, 130,5 x 163 cm, Leihgabe der Stiftung Günther und Annemarie Gercken im Albertinum

dunkle Leinwand mit abstrakten weißen Strichen — **Georg Baselitz, Maler mit Fäustling, 1982** Öl auf Leinwand, 247 x 198 cm, Leihgabe der Stiftung Günther und Annemarie Gercken im Albertinum

Madonna mit dem Jesuskind, am unteren Rand die zwei Engel — **Raffael, Die Sixtinische Madonna, 1512/13**

In Dresden in 1956, Baselitz saw paintings by Ferdinand von Rayski, among others. After his landscape study "Wermsdorfer Wald" (c. 1859), which also hung as a reproduction in Baselitz's school, the artist painted various forest pictures from 1969 onwards. This series of works marks the beginning of a peculiarity of his painting that lasted for decades: from now on, Baselitz turns his motifs upside down.

Further Exhibitions

06/07/2023 —05/11/2023