Research Catalog

Title

Georg Baselitz : Akademie Rousseau / text, Georg Baselitz, Siegfried Gohr.

Publication

• Köln : Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [2020]
• ©2020

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Details

Additional Authors

• Gohr, Siegfried
• Baselitz, Georg, 1938-
• Contemporary Fine Arts (Gallery), host institution

Description

63 pages : color illustrations, portraits; 28 cm

Summary

There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at the Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembered it as a self-portrait of Rousseau with Madame Rousseau. Marie Laurencin was Apollinaire's muse, Clémence Rousseau was Rousseau's muse. As it happens, Franz Marc painted a portrait of Rousseau for Der Blaue Reiter. And Picasso also had a self-portrait by Henri. There's a quite intimate photograph, taken by André Gomés, of Picasso holding Rousseau's self-portrait in his right hand and the portrait of Rousseau's wife in his left hand. Picasso, that constructor of novel objects and audacious paintings, loved Rousseau, the painter of things in rigidified grace. Even Rousseau's gaze in his self-portrait is stiff, directed at his own work, in which objects that we ourselves are familiar with look different : Gothic, Byzantine, somehow not the way we are used to seeing them. It wasn't just the Egyptian Picasso, other image constructors, Kandinsky, for instance, also had pictures of Rousseau. Vasily had the little canvas The Painter and His Wife (1899). De Chirico drew Picasso and friends sitting beneath Rousseau's self-portrait with palette. And didn't Beckmann paint Rousseau's hot-air balloon and his street? I myself have Rousseau's red lithograph The War (c. 1895), which was also done by Ensor and by Uccello; there's something similar by Böcklin and also by Stefano della Bella. Exhibition: Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Germany (12.03. - 16.05.2020).

Alternative Title

Akademie Rousseau

Subject

• Baselitz, Georg, 1938- > Exhibitions
• Baselitz, Georg, 1938-

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Catalog of an exhibition held at Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin, Germany, March 16-April 25, 2020.

Language (note)

• Text in German and English.

Call Number

JQF 21-1178

ISBN

• 9783864423161
• 3864423163

OCLC

1159755417

Title

Georg Baselitz : Akademie Rousseau / text, Georg Baselitz, Siegfried Gohr.

Publisher

Köln : Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, [2020]

Copyright Date

©2020

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Language

Text in German and English.

Added Author

Gohr, Siegfried, writer of supplementary textual content.

Baselitz, Georg, 1938- Drawings. Selections.

Contemporary Fine Arts (Gallery), host institution.

Research Call Number

JQF 21-1178