FOR IM M EDIATE RELEASE The Hall Art Foundation is pleased to announce an exhibition by acclaimed German artist to be held at its Schloss Derneburg location. This major multi-part exhibition is presented on the occasion of the artist s eightieth birthday, and marks Baselitz s return to Derneburg, the place that was his home and studio for over thirty years from 1975 to 2006., over 400 objects, including paintings, sculptures, works on paper and prints from the Hall and Hall Art Foundation collections, which span the artist s career over the past fifty years will be on view. Since the early 1960s, has been practicing the classic arts of painting, drawing and printmaking, and, beginning in the latter part of the 1970s, sculpture. This he has done in a uniquely ambitious and constantly evolving way, with the greatest intensity and personal originality. In an epoch where artists have largely chosen to look at possibilities of combined media, Baselitz, in the second half of the twentieth century and down to the present time, can, in my opinion, only be compared to Picasso who, working in the first half of the twentieth century and beyond, created an equally intensively subjective body of work within the longstanding European tradition of art. To make an exhibition in the Castle of Derneburg where for so many years Baselitz had his studio is a special privilege and pleasure as it will be for those who visit. - Norman Rosenthal One of the most important German artists of the post-war period, Hans-Georg Kern was born in 1938 in the Saxon village of Deutschbaselitz. In 1961 he adopted the name in homage to his birthplace. Baselitz has exhibited his work internationally for decades. Since his 1963 solo debut at Galerie Werner & Katz in Berlin, major solo presentations of his work have been held at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995), the Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007), Museo d Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina, Naples (2008), Kunsthalle BadenBaden (2009), Pinacoteca, São Paulo (2010), Albertina, Vienna (2013), and Haus der Kunst, Munich (2014). Baselitz has participated in numerous important group exhibitions around the world, including A New Spirit in Painting, curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal for the Royal Academy of Art in London (1981), Zeitgeist at the Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (1982), and multiple presentations at documenta (1972, 1982) and at the Venice Biennale (1980, 1993, 2003, 2007, 2015). The artist s work is currently the subject of a major retrospective at the Foundation Beyeler in Basel, Switzerland, which travels to the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC this summer. Baselitz lives and works in Basel, Switzerland, in Salzburg, Austria, at Lake Ammersee, Germany and in Imperia, Italy. His works can be found in institutional collections around the world. Sir Norman Rosenthal, a freelance curator and writer on art, was Exhibitions Secretary of the Royal Academy of Arts, London from 1977-2008.
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Dunklung Nachtung Amung Ding, 2009 Wood, oil paint 120 ½ x 31 x 43 in. (306 x 79 x 109 cm) Sing Sang Zero, 2012 Bronze; Edition 2/6 Man: 130 ½ x 46 ½ x 34 in.; Woman: 118 ½ x 40 ½ x 43 in. Photograph by Stefan Neuenhausen Idol, 1964 39 ½ x 32 in. (100 x 82 cm)
Der Halbierte (The Halved), 1966 64 x 51 ½ in. (162.5 x 130.5 cm) Fingermalerei-Birken, 1972 64 x 51 in. (162 x 130 cm) Ueber das Wasser, 2004 116 x 98 in. (294 x 250 cm)
Oberon (Remix), 2005 118 x 98 in. (300 x 250 cm) A poor future (Eine schlechte Zukunft), 2015 118 x 114 ¼ in. (300 x 290 cm) Ein neuer Typ, 1966 Ink and watercolor on paper 27 ½ x 21 ½ in. (70 x 55 cm)
Kullervos Fu sse, 1967 Charcoal, red chalk and pencil on laid paper 19 x 11 in. (49 x 28 cm) Adler, 1974 Watercolor and pencil on paper 11 ½ x 8 ¼ in. (29.5 x 21 cm) Elke, 1974 Watercolor, ink and pencil on paper 26 x 19 ½ in. (66 x 50 cm)
Boots (Remix), 2006 Watercolor and ink on paper 26 x 20 in. (66 x 51 cm) Untitled, 2015 Ink on paper 26 x 19 ¾ in. (66.5 x 50.5 cm)