Baselitz: a life in print

Celebrating six decades of print making, A Life In Print is the first comprehensive book on an important part of Georg Baselitz’ artistic practice. Considered to be one of the greatest painters alive and credited to have revived Figuration in a time when Abstraction ruled the art world, the German artist started to explore different print techniques beginning in 1964, and never stopped to see them as an integral part of his work. While his contemporaries used new offset and screenprint techniques to create what amounted to reproductions in often high editions, Baselitz rejected the Zeitgeist and explored century old techniques like drypoint etchings, aquatinta, wood– and linocuts, while tirelessly pushing his own artistic limits. A Life in Print brings together more than 245 prints and will introduce the reader to all major themes and motives of Baselitz career, from the so-called Heroes of the mid- 60ies to his iconic images of Eagles to the manyfold portraits of his wife Elke. The book will forcefully make the point that no other artist since Picasso has done more for and in that genre than Baselitz.