In 1972, he had a large exhibition at the Kunsthalle Mannheim, followed by exhibitions in Kunstferyayn in Hamburg and at the Documenta in Kassel (1972, 1977, 1982.), At the Paris Biennale (1985) and the Venice Biennale (1995) in the London Royal Academy (2007).
Here is the translation of several excerpts from an article written by a critic Guillaume Benoit in 2007 on the occasion of the exhibition at the Royal Academy:
Already in the earliest work visible to this crazy ambiguity between the characters, who embody humanity, and their disproporuionalnymi bodies - huge carcasses with a vague outline, packed in military uniforms. That is how the rest of his series of soldiers leaning against a tree - of them are already coming sadness defeat - the direct opposite of romanticism of the heroic death in war ...
The second theme in the work of Baselitz complements these images, it shows that this artist, who was born during the III Reich, it was necessary to disagree with established rules, to rebel - the revolt began to Baselitz very basis of creative work: for example, showing in his work, and death destruction, the artist gives it the evidence of his sagacity, all-seeing madness, he is unable to avert his eyes from the human carnage.
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