Georg Baselitz (1936-2026) - Georg Baselitz - Nackte Meister

Digital print of the invitation card with the title motif of the exhibition at the Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien from 7 March 2023 to 25 June 2023

The print is hand-signed by the recently deceased exceptional artist Georg Baselitz with a black felt-tip pen. With mat and frame.

Raw, powerful, expressive, bold — this is how the globally influential work of Georg Baselitz can be characterized. With sexual themes he achieved the first scandalous successes in the 1960s. Even his later hero images are works of breakthrough, updates to the classical figure piece. Baselitz's fracturing pictures and finally his world-famous "upside-down" paintings allowed him to break away from depicting content.

The Kunsthistorisches Museum invited Georg Baselitz to an exhibition project in which the artist engages in a visual dialogue with the Old Masters. He himself selected the works — 75 works from his own oeuvre, 40 from the painting collection of the Kunsthistorisches Museum —, in which he concentrated entirely on the nude, on the naked figure. Around this human elemental state, always a central theme of European art, the exhibition revolved.

Image: Georg Baselitz Finger Painting - Female Nude, 1972
Copyright: Georg Baselitz/ Kunsthistorischen Museum Wien