BASELITZ / SCHÖNEBECK 1962-1966
Essay by Richard Shiff, foreword by Max Hollein

24 × 28 cm (91/2 × 11 in.)
128 pages
100 colour illustrations
hardcover
ISBN 978-88-572-5333-6
Published by Skira, April 2025

Published on the occasion of the exhibition at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, Baselitz / Schönebeck 1962-66 focuses on the subjects and stylistic shifts of German artists Georg Baselitz and Eugen Schönebeck during the immediate four-year period after their friendship ended in 1962.
Both artists experienced the final days of World War II as adolescents. During their twenties, they produced the groundbreaking Pandemonium Manifestoes (1961-1962), retrospectively heralded by critics for shifting post-war painting through figuration and abstraction. Despite their accomplished collaboration, a paired exhibition has not been possible in six decades.

• Drawn from the Hall Collection, Baselitz / Schönebeck 1962-66 presents approximately 30 works by Baselitz and Schönebeck completed in the immediate years following the dissolution of their friendship.
• This fully illustrated book is the first English language publication to focus on both artists.

Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg, a venue of the Hall Art Foundation, is one of the largest privately owned public museums for contemporary art in Europe. Richard Shiff is the Effie Marie Cain Regents Chair in Art at The University of Texas at Austin, where he directs the Center for the Study of Modernism. Max Hollein is Director and Chief Executive Officer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art. He curated the exhibition Georg Baselitz: The Heroes in 2016 at the Städel Museum in Frankfurt. Stephanie Biron is the Assistant Director of Exhibitions at Kunstmuseum Schloss Derneburg. She received her Master’s Degree in Art History from Hunter College, New York.