Category: — PAINTINGS, SCULPTURE & DRAWINGS
ARTISTS
Penck was born in Dresden, Germany in 1939 as Ralf Winkler. In his early teens he took painting and drawing lessons with Jürgen Böttcher, known by the pseudonym Strawalde, and joined with him to form the renegade artists’ group Erste Phalanx Nedserd (Dresden spelled backward). He later worked for a year as a trainee draftsman at the state advertising agency in Dresden. After failing to gain admission to the fine-arts academies in Dresden and East Berlin, Penck worked for several years as a stoker, a newspaper deliverer, a margarine packer and a night watchman.
Penck later studied together with a group of other neo-expressionist painters in Dresden. He became one of the foremost exponents of the new figuration alongside Jörg Immendorff, Georg Baselitz and Markus Lüpertz. Under the East German communist regime, they were watched by the secret police and were considered dissidents. In the late 1970s they were included in shows in West Berlin and were seen as exponents of free speech in the East. His work was shown by major museums and galleries in the West throughout the 1980s.
Penck first attracted attention with a series of paintings and sculptures, made in the 1960s and early 1970s, that he called Standarts, a conflation of “standard” and “art”, with an echo of the German word for banner or flag, Standarte. In the 1980s he became known worldwide for paintings with pictographic, neo-primitivist imagery of human figures and other totemic forms.
Penck’s sculptures, though less familiar, evoke the same primitive themes as his paintings and drawings. They use common everyday materials such as wood, bottles, cardboard boxes, tin cans, masking tape, tinfoil, and wire, and are crudely painted and assembled.The sculptures are often reminiscent of the stone heads of Easter Island and other Oceanic art.
After leaving East Germany, Penck settled in Kerpen, southwest of Cologne, but in 1983 he moved to London. He later relocated to Dublin. At the time of his death, Penck lived and worked in Berlin, Düsseldorf, Dublin and New York City.
Penck died on 2 May 2017 in Zürich at the age of 77.
Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
A.R. Penck, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
2022
A.R. Penck, Museo d’arte Mendrisio, Switzerland
2020
A.R. Penck, Kunstmuseum Den Haag, Den Haag, The Netherlands
2019
A.R. Penck – „Ich aber komme aus Dresden (check it out man, check it out).”, Albertinum Dresden, Dresden, Germany
2019
A. R. PENCK: I THINK IN PICTURES, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, UK
2017
A.R. Penck – Rites de passage, Fondation Marguerite et Aimé Maeght, Saint‑Paul-de-Vence, France
2015
A. R. Penck – System, Signal, Störung, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany
2013
A. R. Penck – Eine Retrospektive, Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany
2011
A.R. Penck – Holzschnitte, Radierungen, Lithographien, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
2010
A.R. Penck, Vergangenheit, Gegenwart, Zukunft, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Literature (Selection)
A.R. Penck—Retrospektive, ed. by Ingrid Pfeiffer und Max Hollein, Frankfurt Düsseldorf, 2007
A.R. Penck—Konfessionen, Bilder 1988-1995, ed. by Christian K. Scheffel, Bad Homburg, 2000
A. R. Penck—Holzschnitte 1966-1995, ed. by Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus, Reutlingen, 2004
A.R. Penck, A.R. Penck—Zeichungen 1958-1985 Frauen Skulpturen Abstraktes, Bern, 1986
A. R. Penck—Zeichnungen bis 1975, ed. by Kunstmuseum Basel, 1978
Matt Mullican was born 1951 in Santa Monica, California. He studied at the California Institute of the Arts, as well as in Valencia, Spain. His complex language and logic systems, as expressed on paper, glass and various media, have gained in versatility and applicability with the growth of computers and the internet. Mullican lives and works in New York and Berlin.
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2011
Haus der Kunst, Munich
2010
Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
2008
Museum of Art, Liechtenstein
2006—2007
Stuttgart Museum of Art showing at Stuttgart Airport
2005—2006
Lentos Museum, Linz
2005
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
2003
Internationaal Kunstcentrum, Antwerpen
2001
Kunsthalle Basel. Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona
1999
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1997
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (with Lawrence Weiner) Documenta IX, Kassel
1995
New National Gallery and Alexanderplatz Station, Berlin
1990
Visiting professorship at Städelschule, Frankfurt
1989
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel
Literature
Matt Mullican—Model Architecture, ed. by Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, 2006
Matt Mullican—DC: Learning from that Person’s Work, ed. by Museum Ludwig, Cologne, 2005
Matt Mullican, Brooke Alexander, Galerie Daniel Blau, Mai 36 Galerie, New York, Munich, Zürich, 2000
Matt Mullican—Works 1972-1992, ed. by Ulrich Wilmes, Cologne, 1993
Markus Lüpertz was born 1941 in Liberec, Bohemia. From 1956—1963 he studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld and the Academy of Arts, Düsseldorf, where he was director from 1988 to 2009. Markus Lüpertz works as a painter, graphic artist, sculptor, poet and set designer and is considered to be one of the most influential of Germany’s contemporary artists. He works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf and Florence.
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2009
Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn
2005
Erection of Mozart sculpture in Salzburg
2003—2005
Completion of stained glass window in parish church, Cologne
2003
Julio-Gonzáles-Prize of the Valencia Monarchy
1991
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
1990
Lovis-Corinth-Prize of the Esslingen art-guild
1983
Musée d’art Moderne, Straßburg
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel
1981
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1977
Kunsthalle Hamburg; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Kunsthalle Bern
1976
Professorship at the Karlsruhe Academy of Arts
1973
First individual museum exhibition at the Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
1970
Villa Romana Prize, Florence
1962
Founding of self-help gallery Großgörschen 35, with Bernd Koberling and Karl Horst Hödike
Literature (Selection)
Markus Lüpertz—Hauptwege und Nebenwege, Bilder und Skulpturen1963—2009, ed. by Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, 2009
Markus Lüpertz, Siegfried Gohr, Cologne, 2002
Markus Lüpertz—Druckgraphik.Werkverzeichnis 1960—1990, ed. by James Hofmaier, Stuttgart, 1991
Markus Lüpertz—Bilder Gouachen und Zeichnungen 1967—1973, Siegfried Gohr, Berlin, 1986
Markus Lüpertz—Bilder 1970—1983, ed. by Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 1983
Per Kirkeby is a Danish artist whose interest in geology and natural environments has exerted great influence over his paintings and brick sculptures. “A structure-less painting is, to me, a painting that does not matter. Structure mirrors your degree of responsibility toward the work”, he said of making art. “You can’t just let it float around in pretty colours. It needs a kind of core. But this is an inner structure”. Born on September 1, 1938 in Copenhagen, Denmark, Kirkeby studied geology at the University of Copenhagen, but continued to pursue his art practice, producing paintings, sculptures, film and prints. During the 1960s, Kirkeby’s performance art led him to collaborations with Conceptual artists, including Joseph Beuys, Nam June Paik, and Charlotte Moorman. From 1978-88 he held a chair for painting at Kunstakademie Karlsruhe, from 1979-2000 at Städelschule Frankfurt/Main.
Kirkeby lived and worked between Copenhagen, Læsø, and Arnasco. The artist’s works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art in Humlebæk, Denkmark, among others.
He died on May 9th 2018 at the age of 79.
Exhibitions (Selection)
2022
“Per Kirkeby”, Charlottenborg Foundation, Denmark
2019
“Per Kirkeby. Bau und Bild”, Stiftung Insel Hombroich, Germany
2018
2017
2016
2015
2013
2012
2009—2010
Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2008—2009
Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek
2003
Herbert-Boeckl-Prize for his life work Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek. Museum Ludwig, Cologne
1999
Tate Gallery, London; Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich
1996
Coutts Contemporary Art Foundation. Henrik Steffens Award by the Alfred Toepfer Foundation, Hamburg
1995
Haus der Kunst, Munich. Musée des Beaux Arts, Nantes
1990
Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Nord LB Art Prize
1987
Thorvalsden Medal. Ludwig Museum, Cologne
1982
DAAD scholarship for Berlin. Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1980
Danish Pavilion at Venice Biennale. Participation in A new Spirit in Painting,
1978—1989
Professorship at the Cologne Academy of Arts
1979
Kunsthalle Bern Museum
1977
Folkwang, Essen
Literature (Selection)
Per Kirkeby—Paintings 1957-77. Catalogue Raisonné, ed. by Ane Hejlskov Larson, Cologne, 2003
Per Kirkeby—Catalogue Raisonné of Etchings, ed. by Troels Andersen, Bern Berlin, 2002
Per Kirkeby—Louisiana 2008, ed. by Michael Juul Holm, Louisiana, 2008
Per Kirkeby—Die Welt ist Material, ed. by Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2010
Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945 and has lived and worked in France since 1993. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at MoMA, New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); The Metropolitan Museum, New York (1998); Fort Worth Museum of Art (2005); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (2006); Mass MoCA, Massachusetts; Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Grand Palais, Paris; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (2010); the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2011), Tel Aviv Museum of Art (2011) and The Royal Academy, London (2014).
In 2007 Kiefer became the first artist to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre, Paris since Georges Braque some 50 years earlier. In 2009 he created an opera, Am Anfang, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Opéra National de Paris. The Centre Georges Pompidou and the Bibliothèque Nationale de France in Paris staged major solo presentations of his work in 2015.
His work critically engages with myth and memory, referencing totems of German culture and collective history. “Germans want to forget [the past] and start a new thing all the time, but only by going into the past can you go into the future,” he says. Revealing the influence of his tutelage under Joseph Beuys, Kiefer‘s epic-scaled, dense sculptures and paintings are often exposed to elements like acid and fire, and incorporate materials such as lead, burned books, concrete, thorny branches, ashes, and clothing; famed critic and historian Simon Schama has described his work as “heavy-load maximalism.” Kiefer’s vast-ranging references have included the Black Forest, Richard Wagner’s Ring Cycle, and Caspar David Friedrich’s Romantic landscapes, as well as Kabbalah mysticism, Cold War politics, National Socialist architecture, and German poetry by Celan, Rilke and others. “Art is difficult,” he says. “It’s not entertainment.”
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2022
Anselm Kiefer, Grand Palais Ephémère Paris, France
2021
Anselm Kiefer, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2019
Anselm Kiefer, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
2017
Anselm Kiefer, Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark
2015
Paintings, Sculpture & Installations, The Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami L‘alchimie du Livre, Nationale Bibliotheque, Paris, France.
2014
Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Art, London St. John’s Eve, Mönchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany
2013
Walther von der Vogelweide für Lia, Galeria Lia Rumma, Naples Beyond Landscape, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York Sculpture and Paintings from the Hall Collection, Mass MoCA, Massachusetts Un Maestro de la Pintura, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gas Natural Fenosa, A Coruña
2012
Joseph Beuys and Anselm Kiefer: Drawings, Gouaches, Books, MKM Küppersmühle Museum of Modern Art, Duisburg Am Anfang, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn Works from the Essl Collection’, Essl Museum, Vienna
2011
Anselm Kiefer: Shevirat Ha-Kelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Ausgewahlte Arbeiten aus der Sammluing Grothe, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Salt of the Earth, Fondazione Vedova, Venice Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam
Literature (Selection)
Anselm Kiefer—Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, ed. by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2009
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher, ed. by Heiner Bastian, Munich, 2008
Anselm Kiefer—Wege der Weltweisheit/ Die Frauen der Revolution, ed. by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2007
Anselm Kiefer, ed. by Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, 2004
Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse, London, 2001
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher 1969-90, ed. by Götz Adriani, Stuttgart, 1990
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2010
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2009
Hastings Museum & Art Gallery, Hastings
2008
Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover
2007
Tate Britain, London
2006
Tate Liverpool
2005
Kunsthaus Bregenz
2004
Thomas Olbricht Collection, Essen. Kunstsammlungen der Veste, Coburg
2003
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
2002
Travelling exhibition at Groninger Museum, Groningen and Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2000
P1 Contemporary Art Center, New York. Kunst Werke, Berlin
1999
Institute of Contemporary Art, London. Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
Group Exhibitions (Selection)
2009—2010
Barock, Madre Museum, Naples
2009
Mapping the Studio, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2007
Summer Exhibition, Annenberg Courtyard, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2006
Ars, Museum of Contemporary Art KIASMA, Helsinki
2003
Tate Britain, London (Nomination for Turner Prize 2003)
Literature (Selection)
Jake & Dinos Chapman—Memento Moronika, Kestner Gesellschaft Hannover, 2008
Jake and Dinos Chapman, Eckhard Schneider, ed. by Kunsthaus Bregenz, 2005
Jake & Dinos Chapman—The Rape of Creativity, ed. by Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, 2003
Jake Chapman—Metaphysics, London, 2003
Jake & Dinos Chapman—Enjoy more, ed. by Museum Groningen and Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, 2002/2003
Jake and Dinos Chapman—Works from the Chapman Family Collection, ed. by White Cube, London, 2002
Unholy Bible—Six Feet Under, Gagosian Gallery, New York, 1997
Born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938, Georg Baselitz grew up in Saxony, an area that later became the GDR. He studied painting at the Academy of Art in East Berlin (1956) but he was expelled after two terms for ‘political immaturity’. He then applied to study at the Academy in West Berlin and moved there in 1957, completing his studies in 1962. During this period he adopted the surname Baselitz, refl ecting his birthplace Deutschbaselitz.
In searching for alternatives to the strongly narrative art of Social Realism and abstract painting, he became interested in art considered to be outside of the mainstream of Modernism and in imagery that was rooted in the Art Brut. He was also inspired by Existentialist art and literature, by Dada and Surrealism.
In 1963 Baselitz’s fi rst solo exhibition at Galerie Werner & Katz, Berlin, caused a public scandal and two paintings were confi scated by the German authorities who claimed that they were publicly indecent.
After a scholarship in Florence in 1965, Baselitz embarked on a series of paintings depicting monumental male figures, which he described as Rebels, Shepherds or ‘New Types’. Viewed within the Romantic tradition, they are often regarded as outsiders associated with the fi gure of the artist. These paintings are often referred to as the ‘Hero’ series. Baselitz depicted his fi gures within mythical, ruined landscapes, each with symbolic attributes to identify their individual characters, often with exaggerated and exposed sexual organs. The lone fi gure as a prophet or saint also alludes to soldiers returning home from WWII.
The ‘Fracture’ paintings of the late 1960s revealed Baselitz’s keen interest in forests, rural landscapes, woodsmen and hunters. The works were divided into segments so that the imagery could be reorganised pictorially. In 1969, he decided to create and display work upside down in order to re-focus the viewer on the painterly merits of the pictures.
By attempting to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work, this also enabled him to emphasise the abstract qualities of the composition.
Since the early 1980s he has made monumental sculptures of fi gures and heads with rudimentary and deliberately irregular forms. He uses wood because “it enables avoidance of any attractiveness of form, any craft or elegance … objects in wood are unique, simple, unpretentious”. Having spent most of the early 1970s apparently working outside the mainstream, by the 1980s he had established an international reputation (cemented by exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale in 1980 and ‘A New Spirit in Painting’ in 1981). During the 1980s and early 1990s, the canvases became denser and more heavily worked, and subject matter returned to play a greater role. He began introducing motifs from Slavic folk art, sometimes combining motifs with figures of family members taken from old photographs. The subjects of German Romanticism and Socialist Realism inspired his more recent work.
In 2005 Baselitz introduced the ‘Remix’ in his work, in which he has returned to key phases of his own art history and made new versions of his work, which have allowed him to revisit and excavate the past, pushing his own painterly vocabulary to create original new works.
He lives and works in Germany and Italy.
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2021
“Baselitz – The retrospective”, Centre Pomidou, Paris, France
2019
“Baselitz – Academy”, Gallerie dell’Accademia, Venice, Italy
2018
“BASELITZ: SIX DECADES”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, USA
“Georg Baselitz: Works on Paper”, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland
“Georg Baselitz”, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
“Georg Baselitz, The Prints 1997-2017”, Musée des Beaux-Arts le Locle, Switzerland
“Corpus Baselitz”, Musée Uniterlinden, Colmar, France
2017
“Georg Baselitz, Preview with Review”, Hungarian National Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
“Georg Baselitz, The Heroes”, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
“Georg Baselitz: Gli Eroi”, Palazzo delle Expozioni, Rome, Italy
2016
“The Heroes”, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Moderna Museet,
Stockholm, and Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (traveling exhibition)
“Georg Baselitz”: Die Helden, Städel-Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
“Georg Baselitz: Mit Richard unterwegs”, Druckgrafik 1996-2016, Schloss Dachau, Dachau,
Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Emilio Vedova”, Museum Küppersmühle, Duisburg, Germany
“Experiment and Renewal”, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
“Georg Baselitz: Malelade”, Fondation Jan Michalski, Montricher, Switzerland
2015
“Georg Baselitz: How it began. Paintings and graphical works of the last twenty years”, Marble Palace, Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
“Works from the Collection Frieder Burda, Frieder Burda Museum, Baden-Baden, Germany
2014
“Artist Rooms: Georg Baselitz”, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, UK
“Georg Baselitz – Damals, dazwischen und heute / Back then, in between and today”, Haus der
Kunst, Munich, Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Straßenbild”, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2013
“BDM Gruppe”, Victoria and Albert Museum, John Madjeski Garden, London, UK
“Georg Baselitz – Aus der Sammlung”, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Besuch bei Ernst Ludwig”, Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
“Georg Baselitz – Werke von 1968 bis 2012”, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
“Georg Baselitz – Hintergrundgeschichten”, SMD Schloß, Dresden, Germany
“Baselitz – Tier, Landschaft, Ort”, Franz Marc Museum, Kochel am See, Germany
“Georg Baselitz, Albertina | Schausammlung”, Vienna, Austria
“Georg Baselitz – Graphik”, Kunstmuseum Heidenheim, Heidenheim, Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Remix”, Galleria Bellinzona, Milan / Grand Hotel Villa Serbelloni, Bellagio,
Italy
2012
“Romantiker kaputt”, Kunstmuseum Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Berliner Jahre”, Bilder aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Villa Schöningen, Potsdam,
Germany
“Georg Baselitz – Das Naturmotiv”, Altana Kulturstiftung, Bad Homburg, Germany
Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Prinzenpalais, Oldenburg, Germany
2011
“Georg Baselitz – Le Monde à l’envers, tel qu’il est”, Cabinet des Estampes, Liege, Belgium
“Baselitz – Sculpteur”, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, MAM/ARC, Paris, France
“Georg Baselitz / Arnulf Rainer – Lustspiel, Neues aus dem Atelier”, Arnulf Rainer Museum,
Baden, Austria
“Georg Baselitz – A la pointe du trait”, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
“Georg Baselitz – Remix”, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Folk Thing Zero”, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
2010
“Skulpturen”, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
“Remix”, Helsinki Art Museum Tennis Palace, Helsinki, Finland
“50 Jahre Malerei”, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
“Georg Baselitz : Pinturas Recentes”, Pinacoteca do Estado, São Paulo, Brazil
“Georg Baselitz – Ausstellung im Labyrinth”, Kreissparkasse, Munich, Germany
2009
“Baselitz – 50 Years of Painting / 30 Years of Sculpture”, Museum Frieder Burda, Staatliche
Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany
“Georg Baselitz, Dresdner Frauen”, Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister, Dresden, Germany
2007
Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch-Hall
2003
Praemium Imperiale Tokyo. Retrospective at Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic Germany, Bonn. Laureate of the Accademia di Belle Arti, Florence
2000
Lower-Saxon State Award. Large exhibition at the Albertina,Vienna
1999
Honorary academian at the Academy of Fine Arts, Krakow
1996
Honorary professorship at Royal Academy of Arts in London Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1995
Large Retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York, Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculptures Garden, Washington and at Nationalgalerie, Berlin
1990
Retrospective at the Kunsthaus Zürich and Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1986
Awarded Kaiserring (Emperor’s Ring) by the city of Goslar. Art Prize of the Norddeutsche Landesbank, Hannover
1983—1988
(also from 1992-2003) professorship at the Berlin Academy of Arts
1980
Shows his first sculpture at the German Pavillon of the Venice Biennale
1978
Professorship at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe
1976
Retrospectives at the Kunsthalle Bern, the Staatsgalerie of Modern Art in Munich and the Kunsthalle Köln
1970
First museum exhibition in the Kupferstichkabinett, Museum of Arts, Basel
1969
First motif reversal with Der Wald auf dem Kopf (The wood on its head)
1963
First exhibition in Werner & Katz gallery, Berlin and confiscation of his work Die große Nacht im Eimer (the big night down the drain) by the public prosecutor’s office, on grounds of sexual lewdness
Literature (Selection)
Baselitz Remix, ed. by Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, 2006
Georg Baselitz—Paintings 1962-2001, ed. by Detlev Gretenkort, Milan, 2002
Georg Baselitz, Manifeste und Texte zur Kunst 1966—2000, Bern 2001
Georg Baselitz, ed. by Galerie Beyeler, Basel, 1992
Georg Baselitz, Andreas Frantzke, München, 1988
Baselitz—Peintre-Graveur, Werkverzeichnis der Druckgraphik, Fred Jahn, Johannes Gachnang,Vol. I: 1963—1974,Vol. 2: 1974—1982, Basel, Berlin 1983, 1987
Neal Fox was born 1981 in London, studied graphic design at Camberwell College of Art and illustration at the Royal College of Art in London. Fox is co-founder of LE GUN, an illustrative collective and their publication of the same name. He lives and works in London.
Solo Exhibitions (Selection)
2011
BEWARE OF THE GOD, Daniel Blau Ltd., London
2009-2000
Light Years From Home, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2008
Little Drop of Poison, LOFT 19, Paris
2007
The Invisible Republic, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2006
The Aubergine Tongue, The French House, London
Group exhibitions (Selection)
2010
LE GUN at Art Brussels (Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève)
2009
Bare Bones, Dazed and Confused Gallery, London,
Art Basel (Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich)
2008
Don’t stop me Now,Trolley Gallery, London
LE GUN “The Family”, Rochelle School, London
Art Basel (Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich)
2007
L.H. Browns Shoe Shop of Curiosities, London
2006
International Festival LE GUN, Nog Gallery, London
Literature (Selection)
2000 Light Years From Home, Neal Fox, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, 2009
LE GUN 1 – 5, London, 2004—11
Little Drop of Poison, Journal LOFT19 #1, Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, 2008
The Aubergine Tongue, Neal Fox, London, 2006
Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2011
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
2010
Centre Pompidou, Paris
2008
Gemeentemuseum Den Haag. MoMA, New York
2007
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2006
Acquavella Galleries, New York
2005
Museo Correr, Venice
2004
National Gallery of Modern Art, Scotland, Edinburgh
2003
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Fundació la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Tate Britain, London. Städtisches Kunstmuseum Spendhaus and Jerg-Ratgeb-Preis Reutlingen
2001
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
1999
Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, CT. Marlborough Graphics, London
1998
Tate Gallery, London
1997
Rubenspreis, Siegen
1993
Order of Merit, London
1987/88
Retrospective exhibition: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, travelling to Paris, London and Berlin. 1989 shortlisted for the Turner Prize.
1987
Selects The Artist’s Eye exhibition at the National Gallery, London
1983
Created Companion of Honour
1976
The Human Clay, Hayward Gallery, London
1974
first retrospective exhibition, Arts Council of Great Britain at the Hayward Gallery, London
1954
Biennale in Venice (with Francis Bacon)
1951
Arts Council Price
1944
The Painter’s Room, Alex Reid & Lefevre Gallery, London
Literature (Selection)
Hirmer/Daniel Blau (.ed), Lucian Freud, Portraits, Germany 2011
Lucian Freud – L’Atelier, Centre Pompidou, Paris 2010
Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud – Gemälde, London 2007
Eva-Marie Blattner, Lucian Freud, Graphik – Prints, Reutlingen 2002
Lucian Freud, Rolf Lauter, Naked Portraits, Ostfildern-Ruit 2001
Ursula Blanchebarbe, Lucian Freud, Reutlingen Bielefeld 1997
Robert Hughes, Lucian Freud – Paintings, London 1989
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