Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings

October 21, 2022 through February 5, 2023

One of the most celebrated contemporary German artists, Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) gained international recognition in the 1960s for revitalizing figurative painting. This exhibition celebrates the gift from Baselitz to the Morgan of fifty drawings covering the span of his entire career. On display will be examples from the iconic Heroes series and fractured drawings of the mid-1960s; landscape and figure drawings from the 1970s, when Baselitz began turning his images upside-down to emphasize their structure and materiality over their subject; colorful pastels and watercolors from the 1980s and 90s; and a group of Remix drawings from the last twenty years, in which Baselitz revisits themes from his early works. Organized in collaboration with the Albertina Museum in Vienna, which is the recipient of a similar gift from the artist, the exhibition will include about sixty-five drawings. Combining sheets from both donations, it will present a retrospective of Baselitz’s artistic development and highlight the central role drawing plays in his practice.

Georg Baselitz: Six Decades of Drawings is organized by the Morgan Library & Museum, New York and the Albertina, Vienna.

This exhibition is made possible by the Jerome L. Greene Foundation.

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Additional support is provided by the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte.

Georg Baselitz, Untitled, 1984, Graphite and watercolor on paper, The Morgan Library & Museum, gift of the Baselitz Family; 2022.107. © 2022 Georg Baselitz

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