Georg Baselitz, Painter of Inversion and Rupture, Dies at 88

The death of Georg Baselitz at 88 closes a defining chapter in postwar European art. Across six decades, he reshaped painting through a sustained confrontation with Germany’s past, probing memory and identity in works that consistently refused comfort or easy interpretation. Born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938 in Saxony, Baselitz grew up during the final years […]