BASELITZ, Georg. Werkverzeichnis der Druckgrafik 1963-1982. Berlin: Gachnang & Springer. 1983.
1) Vol. I: 1963-1974. Folio. Original brown cloth boards with lettering to spine and abstract illustration to cover; original illustrated dust jacket in navy blue with white lettering and drawing of a face in orange; housed incard stapled slipcase pp. [6], 7-229, [1]; a little rubbing to bottom and head of spine of dust jacket; otherwise near fine copy.
2) Vol. II: 1974-1982. Folio. Original brown cloth boards with lettering to spine and abstract illustration to cover; original illustrated dust jacket in black with white lettering and Orangenesser (1981) in red and blue; housed in brown stapled slipcase; pp. [6], 7-265, [3]; a little rubbing to head of spine, otherwise fine copy.
Both volumes signed by the artist.
This two volume set of large hardbacks published by Gachnang & Springer in Berlin in 1983 together form a catalogue raisonne of Georg Baselitz's iconic graphic work between the years 1963-1982. Baselitz, a Post-War artist, embraced the Abstract Expressionism condoned by the Nazi's and instead positioned the figure as the great muse of his work. It was in the late 1960's that Baselitz began to play with his famous inversion and portray his subjects upside down not only in order to slow down his process of composition and to act against the conventional order he was always fighting- but also to extend the viewer’s comprehension of the essence behind it. In his own words:
"I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society. And I didn't want to reestablish an order: I had seen enough of so-called order. I was forced to question everything, to be 'naive', to start again".
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