Film
Baselitz
2004Directed by Heinz Peter Schwerfel
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- Released
- Runtime
- 52m
About Baselitz
- Documentary
Synopsis
Georg Baselitz (born January 23, 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern Americans as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. His career was kick-started in the 1960s after police action against one of his paintings, (Die große Nacht im Eimer), because of its provocative, offending sexual nature. Baselitz is one of the world's best-selling living artists. He is a professor at the renowned Hochschule der Künste in Berlin.
- Director
- Heinz Peter Schwerfel
- Writer
- Heinz Peter Schwerfel