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In the 1920s, Otto Dix was the artist of Neue Sachlichkeit, the New Objectivity, par excellence. Painting in a very realistic, almost photographic style, he chose as subjects the poverty, violence, death, and war that he experienced as a soldier in World War I. He staged the world as a play, a grotesque farce based on the classical canon of beauty.

As a young painter coming into art in the early 1960s, Georg Baselitz (born 1938) was swift to reject the gestural abstraction that had dominated European and American painting since the end of World War Two, embracing instead a bold figurative expressionism. Often confounding optical habits by inverting his motifs, or pushing them close to abstraction, Baselitz forged new tensions and resistances in painting, and even today, he remains driven by fundamental questions on the potentials and limits of his art. Bildweg is published on the occasion of the artist's seventieth birthday, and ranges across his work, from the "Schwarz-weiss Negativ (Black and White Negative)"--one of the first "headstand" pictures--to his recent "remix" of his well-known large-format work "The Bridge Ghost's Supper."

Summary: Zu seinem zehnjährigen Geburtstag wagt der Pionier aller automobilen Themenparks in Wolfsburg, die Kommunikationsplattform des grössten Automobilherstellers Europas, mit der Publikation "Erlkönig" eine Art Forschungsreise in die eigene Identität. Im Jahr 2000 als Prototyp aus nichts als einer Vision entstanden ist er heute eines der populärsten und gleichzeitig experimentellsten Foren für die Begegnung von Menschen zu vielfältigsten kulturellen Anlässen.