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After celebrating its twentieth anniversary with three blockbuster exhibitions in 2017, the Fondation Beyeler is starting the year 2018 with Georg Baselitzwithout a doubt one of the most influential painters and sculptors of our timeis celebrating his eightieth birthday, and the Foundation is devoting an extensive retrospective to this charming provocateur. Many of Baselitzs most important paintings and sculptures from the past six decades will be seen together for the first time. By displaying key works together, on an equal footing, it becomes easier to perceive the unique wealth of his formal and contextual innovations. Leafing through more than two hundred richly illustrated pages, the reader encounters the beautiful, the ugly, the ambiguous, and the disturbing.

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Georg Baselitz, geb. 1938, ist ein bekannter Maler und Bildhauer. Sein Frühwerk zeichnet sich durch eine provokative, schroffe Figürlichkeit aus. Seit 1969 erfolgte Kehrtwendung der Bildmotive. Seit Mitte der 70er Jahre ist Georg Baselitz leidenschaftlicher Afrika-Sammler.

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