German painting after the war

Chapter 1

Georg Baselitz and the art of inversion

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Chapter 2

Gerhard Richter and the blurry truth

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Chapter 3

Anselm Kiefer and the weight of history

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Chapter 4

The Neue Wilden and the punk paint revolution

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Master of German painting after the war

Ch 1 · Georg Baselitz and the art of inversion

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gertrude Why Georg Baselitz flipped his paintings upside down

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gertrude He paints it upside down! Focus on the canvas, turn the world around!

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The Great Art Flip

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gertrude The scandalous exhibition that seized the public eye

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gertrude Escaping the strict rules of East German art

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gertrude Carving raw anger into solid blocks of wood

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Carving raw anger into solid blocks of wood

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Fun Fact

Upside-down painting: Georg Baselitz does not paint right-side up and flip it; he actually paints his subjects upside down from the very start.

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The scandalous exhibition that seized the public eye

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Glossary

inversion (noun)
The reversal of the normal position, order, or relation of something. In 1969, Georg Baselitz began painting his subjects upside down to emphasize pure form over narrative content.

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Quiz

Which controversial painting by Georg Baselitz was confiscated by Berlin police during his 1963 exhibition?

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Gossip

Would you hang an upside-down painting in your room?

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In which city did police raid Georg Baselitz's first solo exhibition and confiscate two paintings in 1963?

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In what year did Georg Baselitz escape East Germany to live in West Berlin?

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Which painting was Georg Baselitz's very first inverted (upside-down) work, created in 1969?

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What was the inspiration behind the artist name 'Georg Baselitz'?

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What tool did Georg Baselitz use to carve his controversial 1980 Venice Biennale sculpture?

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Why was Georg Baselitz expelled from the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin?

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What was the main artistic reason Georg Baselitz painted his subjects upside down?