Research Catalog

Title

Georg Baselitz : the heroes / Georg Baselitz ; Städel Museum ; editors Max Hollein, Eva Mongi-Vollmer ; translation from German, Gérard A. Goodrow.

Publication

• München : Hirmer, [2016]
• ©2016

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Additional Authors

• Baselitz, Georg, 1938-
• Hollein, Max
• Mongi-Vollmer, Eva
• Goodrow, Gérard A.
• Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut Frankfurt am Main, host institution.
• Moderna museet (Stockholm, Sweden), host institution.
• Palazzo delle esposizioni (Rome, Italy), host institution.
• Museo Guggenheim Bilbao host institution.

Description

166 pages : illustrations (some color), portraits; 31 cm

Summary

In 1965/66 Georg Baselitz created the monumental series The Heroes and New Types , which he presented in wild colour and with defiant style. By turning his attention towards the tradition of representational painting his work formed a striking contrast to the trends towards abstraction and Expressionism prevailing during the 1960s, thereby embarking on his own unique path. In his sceptical basic attitude towards post-war Germany Baselitz (1938) emphasised in his works the ambivalent aspects of the present in which he lived. His Heroes appear correspondingly contradictory with their military fatigues in tatters, their failure as deeply engraved as their resignation. The contrast to the success story of Western Germany's economic miracle could hardly be more sharply defined, but there is more at stake: with this group of works the artist reflected his own position in relation to society. It was the artist's self-assertion and determination of identity that were at stake and that Baselitz formulated so forcefully.

Alternative Title

Heroes

Subject

• Baselitz, Georg, 1938- > Exhibitions
• Baselitz, Georg, 1938-
• 1900-1999
• Heroes in art > Exhibitions

Genre/Form

• Exhibition catalogs
• Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Translation of: Die Helden.
• This catalogue has been published in conjunction with the exhibition "Georg Baselitz - Die Helden", Städel Museum, Frankfurt am Main, 30 June 2016 - 23 October 2016 ; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, 12. November 2016 - 19 February 2017 ; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, 4 March 2017 - 11 June 2017 ; Museo Guggenheim, Bilbao, 30 June 2017 - 5 November 2017.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 160-162).

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Preface -- Foreword / Max Hollein -- Essays. Painting as liberation / Max Hollein -- Heroes without deployment. The years of creationg (1965/66) / Eva Mongi-Vollmer -- Lost / Richard Shiff -- The postheroic hero Georg Baselitz and the end of a failed ideology / Uwe Fleckner -- Catalogue -- 'No one wants to die without having lived...' 15 stories based on pictures by Georg Baselitz from the years 1965 and 1966 / Alexander Kluge -- Appendices.

ISBN

• 9783777425641
• 3777425648
• 9783777425689
• 3777425680

OCLC

• 959228372
• SCSB-10295502

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library