Untitled
Maker
b.1938 (Life dates)
Title
Untitled
Date of Production
1964
Dimensions
Height: 52 cm
Width: 39.3 cm
Width: 39.3 cm
Accession Number
G.2020.XX.1
Mode of Acquisition
Charles Booth-Clibborn, gift, 2020
Credit
The Courtauld, London (Samuel Courtauld Trust)
Copyright
© Georg Baselitz 2021
Location
Not currently on display
Label Text
Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) grew up in the former East Germany, in an area heavily marked by the destruction of World War II, and attended art school in West Berlin in the late 1950s, where gestural abstraction was the dominant style. Both of these formative influences played a key role in shaping his work. He works in multiple media (painting, sculpture, and the graphic arts); although his work is nominally figurative, it is known for stressing the inherent artifice of the creative process.
Baselitz first began making prints in 1964, making the present work, a semi-abstract composition depicting biomorphic or anthropomorphic forms in a bleak landscape, one of his earliest efforts in etching. Although an early work, it already demonstrates his keen interest in the technical and expressive possibilities offered by printmaking; he has described the resistance of print matrices as a creative force within his art and has referred to prints as having a ‘symbolic power which has nothing to do with a painting’.
Baselitz first began making prints in 1964, making the present work, a semi-abstract composition depicting biomorphic or anthropomorphic forms in a bleak landscape, one of his earliest efforts in etching. Although an early work, it already demonstrates his keen interest in the technical and expressive possibilities offered by printmaking; he has described the resistance of print matrices as a creative force within his art and has referred to prints as having a ‘symbolic power which has nothing to do with a painting’.
Provenance
Herbert Winckler Kunsthandel, Berlin; Charles Booth-Clibborn; Presented by Charles Booth-Clibborn in honour of Linda and Howard Karshan, 2020
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