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by Rainer Michael Mason (Editor), Georg Baselitz (Author), Detlev Gretenkort (Author)
"The painting partisan"--this is the term Cornelius Tittel recently used to describe Georg Baselitz in a review (November 3, 2021) in Die Welt in connection with the major retrospective that has just opened at the Centre Pompidou. For Heiner Müller in a conversation (1991) with Alexander Kluge, "the partisan, in a modern, a technocratically defined structure, was like a dog on the highway." And it is within this outsider status that Tittel sees the artist Georg Baselitz mature over several decades into a monolith whom "the Académie des Beaux-Arts has now accepted as the sole German among its members. The sword presented to him at the formal ceremony was meant to symbolize his immortality. It was actually no longer needed though." We are pleased to announce, together with the editors Rainer Michael Mason and Detelv Gretenkort, that volume IV of the Graphic Works (1989-1992) will be published in the spring of 2022; it contains works no. 718-1010. Volume III had already established that Georg Baselitz's graphic oeuvre stands on an equal footing with his paintings and sculptural work.
Author Biography
Rainer Michael Mason is an art historian and a specialist in prints, he is the editor together with Detlev Gretenkort of Vol. III. Georg Baselitz: Peintre Graveur, Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1983-1989, as well as now of Vol. IV. Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1989-1992. Georg Baselitz, born as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz in 1938, is one of the most internationally renowned German artists of the post-war period. He became known with figurative, expressive paintings, sculptures, and prints. His work has been celebrated in countless retrospectives to date, including 2011 at the Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2014 Haus der Kunst Munich, 2016 Stadeln Museum Frankfurt, 2019 Academia Venice, 2022 Centre Pompidou Paris. In addition to numerous participations in the documenta 1972, 1977, 1982, and the Venice Biennale in 1980. Detlev Gretenkort is an art historian and since years the private secretary of Georg Baselitz, he is the editor together with Rainer Michael Mason of Vol. III. Georg Baselitz: Peintre Graveur, Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1983-1989, as well as now of the forthcoming Vol. IV. Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1989-1992.
