%C2%A9 Georg Baselitz
Pferd (Horse), 1986
Georg Baselitz (born Hans-Georg Kern)expand_more
Color etching and aquatintexpand_more
Anonymous gift in recognition of Tom Rassieurexpand_more 2019.90
Not on Viewexpand_more
Printmaker, painter, and sculptor Georg Baselitz is one of Germany’s most celebrated artists, a leader of the Neo-expressionist movement. In 1969, he began showing his subjects upside down to stress the artifice of his work rather than its representational content, a practice he continues.
If you stand on your head, Pferd shows a horse grazing in a field, perhaps early or late in the day when the shadows are long. But what Baselitz really wants you to see is the vibrant action of his hand. Powerful, searching, free strokes that quiver and slash, breaking up form just as quickly as they define it. He adds to the chaos by applying color only loosely attached to delineated form.
Details
- Title
- Pferd (Horse)
- Artist Life
- born 1938
- Role
- Artist
- Accession Number
- 2019.90
- Provenance
- Sold at the Print and Drawing Council Sale, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, March 17, 1988, item 79; to Barbara Longfellow (Minneapolis, 1917-2019); by descent to her daughters Thayer Baine (Washington, DC, b. 1950) and Ann Longfellow (Minneapolis, b. about 1946).
- Curator Approved
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© Georg Baselitz