Baselitz: Six Decades was the first major US retrospective in more than 20 years of one of Germany’s greatest living artists, marking the artist’s 80th birthday. With more than 100 works highlighting every phase of Baselitz’s six-decade career from the 1950s to today, this milestone exhibition featured work never before seen in the US and cemented Baselitz’s reputation as one of the most original and inventive figurative artists of his generation.
For the first time, US audiences could experience the full scope of Baselitz’s powerful explorations of the human figure, as well as the influence of American artists on his early work and his continued impact on contemporary American painting and sculpture. Baselitz’s creative genius, combined with his message about the inherent strength of the everyday human condition, made this exhibition particularly compelling.
