Baselitz georg biography of michael

"I was born into a destroyed order, into a destroyed landscape, into a destroyed people, into a destroyed society.
And I did not want to introduce a new order.

Baselitz georg biography of michael

I had seen more than enough so-called orders. I was forced to question everything, had to start again >naively<." - Georg Baselitz

January 23, 1938
Born Hans-Georg Kern on January 23 in Deutschbaselitz (Saxony), the second child of a teacher couple.

1956
Studies at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin.

Baselitz` individual personality, which does not correspond at all to the socialist ideas of the GDR, is already apparent here.

1957
After two semesters, the 18-year-old Baselitz is expelled from the university for "socio-political immaturity".

Continues his studies at the West Berlin Hochschule für bildende Künste with Hann Trier.

1958
Moves to West Berlin (note: the Wall had not yet been built).

1960
With the so-called "Rayski Portraits" the first valid works are created.

1961
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