Georg Baselitz: Collected Interviews from artpress

artpress has published a collection of interviews with Georg Baselitz, the German painter known for his upside-down figures. Born in 1938 in East Germany, Baselitz moved to Berlin at age 20 and caused a scandal with his first exhibition, where paintings were seized by police. By the 1980s, his work was considered major in painting's revival. In 1980, he represented Germany at the Venice Biennale, where the public also discovered his mastery of sculpture. Baselitz is also a printmaker, and the interviews reveal his erudition, passion for African art, knowledge of folk art, and uncompromising view of his time. The volume includes interviews by Démosthènes Davvetas, Jean-Louis Froment, Jean-Marc Poinsot, Jacques Kerchache, Dieter Koepplin, Richard Leydier, and Erik Verhagen, with a preface by Leydier and an unpublished interview. Baselitz is quoted: "Art is the work of anarchists, rebels, useless to order. Artists are first of all outcasts."