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Catalogue of an exhibition held Dec. 2, 1987-Jan. 16, 1988, at the Anthony d'Offay Gallery. Includes an interview by Jean-Louis Froment and Jean-Marc Poinsot.

This monograph, by Guggenheim Deputy Director and Senior Curator Diane Waldman, documents every phase of the artist's career as a painter and sculptor. New translations of many of Baselitz's writings provide additional insight into his radical use of the figure in painting. A chronology, bibliography, and exhibition history are also included.

Georg Baselitz paints violent and distinctive imagery that is reminiscent stylistically of both German and American Expressionism. To the public he is the painter of upside-down pictures. This extensively illustrated book-which reproduces all the major works from Baselitz's distinguished career-explores his development, revealing an artist whose concerns are derived from his experiences of post-war German society. Essays deal with the philosophical preoccupations of the period and place the artist in the context of late twentieth-century art. The book also examines why the artist paints upside down and the importance of this to our understanding of his art. Baselitz is an artist who has rarely commented about his work. This volume presents for the first time his thoughts about his art and the context within which it is made.

Oil on canvas paintings of dogs.

Baselitz and Rainer's artistic histories have taken different paths. However, they have one similarity: they are both painters by disposition and the vitality of their 'signature', in many diverse ways, has always been significant. Both artists are very involved with life, with the experience and wisdom of age. Therefore it is logical that the exhibition in Arnulf Rainer Museum in Baden and the catalogue focus on their most recent, vital, contemporary works.