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Georg Baselitz, German artist, 1938-2026 The painter and sculptor challenged his nation's recollections of – or unwillingness to recall – its traumatic recent history
1 May 2026
By Jackie Wullschlager
'He was most famous for painting people, including his own tall, lean form and balding head, upside down, larger than life. It was a playful, disorienting gesture from an artist who was anarchic, comic, yet deadly earnest from the start, and felt he was responding to an absurd world turned on its head.'
