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Georg Baselitz, German artist known for provocation and upside-down paintings, dies at 88

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation and known for painting images upside down, has died

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German artist Georg Baselitz dies aged 88

Prominent contemporary visual artist explored range of techniques across six decades of work

The Guardian - UK

‘In every slurp of paint, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude

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Georg Baselitz obituary

Painter and sculptor whose raw, expressive works reflected on postwar Germany and courted controversy over his 60-year career

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Culture Digest: The best things to do, hear, see or watch in Europe this week

Large-scale sculptures illuminate Lisbon's MAAT, A24's 'The Smashing Machine' wrestles with addiction, and Taylor Swift's 'The Life of a Showgirl' marks the cultural event of the year.

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Postures: Jean Rhys in the Modern World review – sex, squalor and jungle sweat for an eternal outsider

Artists as varied as Sarah Lucas, Gwen John and Georg Baselitz are called upon by critic-curator Hilton Als to chime with the writer of Wide Sargasso Sea

The Guardian - UK

Paper tigers: how Kandinsky, Kokoschka and Klee sparked an artistic revolution

A new show of visceral, violent and anxiety-strewn drawings reveals a history of expressionist artists seeking to make the world a better place

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Postcard from Paris Design Week 2024

Surrealism, restraint and a beautiful show of Blunk marked the new season of design events in the French capital

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Parade by Rachel Cusk review – cold visions of chaos

The world is turned upside down in an experimental novel about art, observation and making stories

The Guardian - UK

Georg Baselitz’s erotic prints and the world’s best photography portraits – the week in art

Plus, Peter Blake talks AI in art, a dynamic look for hospital architecture and a 450-year-old look at the birth of our galaxy

The Guardian - UK

Pornography or art? Outrage master Georg Baselitz’s sex prints are sublimely carnal

These huge upside-down linocuts showing clothed couples having sex, with a white circle at the pivotal point, are ‘like Picasso on schnapps’

The Guardian - UK

‘Pose with the pumpkins? I’d rather meet the meteorite’ – Frieze art fair review

Painting is back in vogue at the giant art fair. But it’s superficial and silly rather than sleazy and shocking. The Masters section is where the work to lust over is – with an actual space rock for sale

The Guardian - UK

Utopian cities, medieval manuscripts and a queen in mourning – the week in art

One of Britain’s earliest artworks goes on show in Newcastle while the Design Museum is looking to the future and there are surreal sculptures in London

The Guardian - UK

‘Like being beaten with a bat’: Georg Baselitz on eye-opening art – and his true feelings about female painters

Now in his 80s but as fiery as ever, the German provocateur talks about his pride at being a ‘degenerate’ artist, painting his wife nude – and revisits his assertion that: ‘Women don’t paint very well’

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Male artists dominate galleries. Our research explored if it’s because ‘women don’t paint very well’ – or just discrimination

In the art world, there is a gaping gender imbalance when it comes to male and female artists.

The Guardian - UK

Young & Wild? Art in 1980s Germany; Pre-Raphaelite: Drawings and Watercolours – review

There’s prolific energy, and the odd woeful daub, in a small show of art from 1980s Berlin – all eclipsed by a single pencil sketch nearby...

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