Georg Baselitz
(Born 1938)
Georg Baselitz was born in Deutschbaselitz, Germany, in 1938. He attended the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in East Berlin in 1956 and the West Berlin school from 1958 – 1962. In 1965 Baselitz was awarded a scholarship for a year’s residential study at the Villa Romana in Florence. Very early in his career, Baselitz emerged as a pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism, rebelling against the dominance of abstract painting and proposing in its place a personal, expressive figurative art rooted in the art brut movement. In his early works, he concentrated on several figure types, including heroes, rebels, and shepherds. From 1969, Baselitz painted his subjects upside down. He adopted this method to stress the artifice of painting. The artist is also well known for his sculpture and printmaking. Drawing from a myriad of influences, including art of the Mannerist period, African sculptures, and Soviet era illustration art, Baselitz developed his own, distinct artistic language.
Baselitz’s work has been widely exhibited throughout the United States and Europe. Major retrospectives of his work have been held at the Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (1983; traveled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Kunsthalle Basel); Centre Pompidou, Paris (1993); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (1995; traveled to Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, and Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin); Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1996 and 2011); and Royal Academy of Arts, London (2007). Baselitz has represented Germany at the Venice Biennale (1980) and participated in Documenta 5 and 7 in Kassel, Germany (1972 and 1982). Georg Baselitz lives and works in Basel (Switzerland), at the Ammersee (Bavaria, Germany) and in Imperia (Italian Riviera).
EDUCATION
1956-57 Academy of Art in East and West Berlin, Germany
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Georg Baselitz: Zeitgeist, Skarstedt, London
2021
Georg Baselitz: Springtime, Gagosian, New York
Georg Baselitz: Pivotal Turn, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Georg Baselitz: DOMUS GRIMANI, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
Georg Baselitz: Archinto, Museo di Palazzo Grimani, Venice, Italy
Georg Baselitz: Hands, Cristea Roberts Gallery, London, England
2020
Baselitz/Basquiat: 1981-1982, Skarstedt, New York
Georg Baselitz: Darkness Goldness, White Cube, London, England
Georg Baselitz: Years Later, Gagosian, Hong Kong
Georg Baselitz: What If..., Gagosian, San Francisco, CA
Georg Baselitz: Akademie Rousseau, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Galerie Erik Bausman, Halle, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Maruani Mercier, Zaventum, Belgium
2019
Georg Baselitz – Arbeiten europäischen Sammlungen. Michael Werner Kusnthandel, Cologne, Germany
Georg Baselitz – I was born into a destroyed order... and I didn’t want to reestablish an order. Michael Werner Gallery, London, UK
Georg Baselitz: Time, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Berlin, Germany
Uraufführung eines Bildes, Deutsches Nationaltheater, Musiksaal, Weimar, Germany
Georg Baselitz – „Veteran“, Arbeiten auf Papier, Galerie Boisserée, Cologne, Germany
Estate con Baselitz – Incisioni 1964-2015, Galleria Oreste Bellinzona, Milan, Italy
George Baselitz, Die Schenkung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
George Baselitz – Devotion, Alan Cristea Gallery, London, UK
Baselitz – Academy: Gallerie dell’Accademia, Campo della Carità, Venice, Italy
Emilio Vedova di/by Georg Baselitz, Fondazione Emilio e Annabianca Vedova, Venice, Italy
Baselitz im Dialog mit den Zittauer Fastentüchern, Kunsthistorisches Museum Franziskanerkloster, Zittau, Germany
Devotion, Gagosian, New York
George Baselitz:: Farewell Bill, Gouachen, Radierungen, Holzschnitte, Galeire Clemens Thimme, Karlsruhe, Germany
2018
A Focus on the 1980s, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London
Baselitz: Six Decades, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Georg Baselitz, Fondation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel, Switzerland
Hommage à Georg Baselitz, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin
Corpus Baselitz, Musée Unterlinden, Colmar, France
Grafiken aus 5 Jahrzehnten von Georg Baselitz: Eine Retrospektive zum 80, Geburtstag, Galerie Radicke, St. Auustin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Kunstsammlungen, Chemnitz, Germany
2017
Georg Baselitz: 1979-1992, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Georg Baselitz: The Prints 1997-2017, Musée des Beaux-Arts, le Locle, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz: The Heroes, Guggenheim Bilbao, Biblao, Spain
Georg Baselitz: Recent Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Athens
2016
The Heroes, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany. Traveled to Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Georg Baselitz: Experiment and Renewal, Museum Jorn, Silkeborg, Denmark
Wir fahren aus (We're off), White Cube, London, United Kingdom
George Baselitz: Jumping Over My Shadow, Gagosian Gallery, New York
George Baselitz: Visit from Hokusai, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
The Shape of Time, Gagosian Gallery, Hong Kong, China
2015
Georg Baselitz: Visit from Hokusai, Gagosian Gallery, New York
White Cube, Hong Kong, China
Georg Baselitz: Sigmund’s Cave, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Drinkers and Orange Eaters, Skarstedt, New York
Works from the Collection Frieder Burda, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
2014
Georg Baselitz — Back then, in between, and today, Haus derk Kunst, Munich, Germany
ARTIST ROOMS George Baselitz, New Walk Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, United Kingdom
George Baselitz: Farewell Bill, Gagosian Gallery, Britannia St., London, United Kingdom
2013
Works from 1968 to 2012, ESSL Museum, Vienna, Austria
Le côté sombre - new sculptures and paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
BDM Gruppe, Victoria and Albert Museum, John Madjeski Garden, London, United Kingdom
Georg Baselitz: Background Stories, Galerie Neue Meister, Dresden, Germany
Aus der Sammlung, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
Georg Baselitz — Eugène Leroy. Le récit de condensation, MUba Eugène Leroy de la Ville de Tourcoing, Tourcoing, France
Georg Baselitz: Besuch bei Ernst Ludwig, Kirchner Museum, Davos, Switzerland
2012
Das Negativ – New Works, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Romantiker Kaputt,Stiftung Moritzburg, Halle, Germany
Das Naturmotiv: Zeichnungen Und Gemälde Von 1958 Bis Heute, Altana Kulturstiftung, Sinclair Haus, Bad Homburg; Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Oldenburg, Germany
Die Berliner Jahre – Bilder aus der Sammlung Baselitz, Villa Schoningen, Potsdam, Germany
Gagosian Gallery, New York
2011
Lustspiel: Baselitz / Rainer – Neue Arbeiten, Arnulf Rainer Museum, Baden, Germany
Baselitz Sculpteur, Musée D’Art Moderne De La Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: A la Pointe du Trait, Musée Cantini, Marseille, France
Remixed, GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Between Eagles and Pioneers, White Cube, London, United Kingdom
Georg Baselitz: The Early Sixties, Michael Werner, New York
Georg Baselitz: 25 Jahre Meisterwerke,Niels Borch Jensen, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Watercolours, Galerie Thaddeaus Ropac, Salzberg, Austria
Rex Irwin Art Dealer, Woollahra, NSW, Australia
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen, Denmark
Folk Thing Zero, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Georg Baselitz – Grafiken, Galerie Doris Hölder, Ravensburg, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Le Monde à l’envers, tel qu’il est, Cabinet des Estampes, Lüttich, Belgium
2010
Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings, Pinacoteca, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Georg Baselitz and his Relationship to the Swedish Artists Hill, Josephson and Strindberg, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
Georg Baselitz: Monumental Sculptures, Paintings and Aquarelles, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Tennis Palace Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Skulpturen, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Germany
Baselitz: 50 Jahre malerei, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, German
Georg Baselitz: Non Conform, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz Big Night (Remix) xylographies, Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: Ausstellung im Labyrint, Kreissparkasse, Munich, Germany
2009
Georg Baselitz: Dresdner Frauen, Galerie Neue Meister und Gemäldegalerie Alte Meister der Staatlichen Kunstsammlung Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz, 1960 – 2008, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Georg Baselitz: Dr Freud Und Andere Musik, Contemporary Fine Art, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz – eine Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Fifty Paintings, Thirty Sculptures, Museum Frieder-Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Hôtel des Arts, Toulon, France
Georg Baselitz Gemälde und Skulpturen 1960- 2008, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg
Graphiken von Georg Baselitz, Sparkasse Hildesheim, Germany
Top, Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Mrs Lenin and the Nightingale, White Cube, London, United Kingdom
Baselitz: Derneburger Spuren 1975–2006, Sparkasse Hildesheim, Hildesheim, Germany
George Baselitz: Volk Ding Zero – Folk Thing Zero, LWL – Landesmuseum fur Klosterkultur, Munster, Germany
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Remix 65/66, Galerie Margareta Friesen, Dresden, Germany
Galerie Henze & Ketterer & Triebold, Riehen, Switzerland
Galerie Radicke, Sankt Augustin, Germany
Galerie Ruhnke, Potsdam, Germany
2008
Georg Baselitz 23. Januar 1938, Contemporary Fine Arts Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina MADRE, Naples, Italy
Remix, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Georg Baselitz: La Grande Notte in Bianco, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
Baselitz auf Papier, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Bildweg, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Wer kennt Anna Selbdritt, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
2007
Georg Baselitz: The Bridge Ghost’s Supper, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
Georg Baselitz: A Retrospektive,Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Georg Baselitz, Museo Civico di Belle Arti, Lugano, Switzerland
The Russian Pictures, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Étienne; traveled to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany; National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Georg Baselitz: Remix Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, West 24th Street, New York
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
2006
Retrospektive, Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Baselitz, Eine einzige Leidenschaft – die Maleri, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz: Remix, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich; traveled to Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Georg Baselitz – Works on Paper, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
2005
Georg Baselitz. Andere Ansichten, Galerie Terminus, Munich, Germany
Georg Baselitz. Aquarelle, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
2004
Georg Baselitz: Pictures That Turn Your Head, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
Georg Baselitz: Malelade, Staatliche Kunsthalle, Karlsruhe, Germany
Upside down, boy you turn me. Baselitz in der Hess Collection, Kunstmuseum, Bern, Germany
Georg Baselitz. Neue Arbeiten, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
2003
Georg Baselitz – Monumentale Aquarelle, Albertina, Vienna; travled to FRAC de Picardie, Amiens, France
Georg Baselitz. Recent Paintings, Michael Werner Gallery, New York
Georg Baselitz: New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, London
1999
The Large-Scale Prints of Georg Baselitz, Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland
Georg Baselitz, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico
1998
Georg Baselitz - Portraits of Elke, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas. Traveled to Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
1997
Georg Baselitz: Recent Paintings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York
Retrospektive, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1996
Georg Baselitz: New Works, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1995
Retrospektive, Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens, Washington D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles, California
1991
Georg Baselitz. Grabados 1964 – 1991, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
1990
Baselitz: The Hero Paintings, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
Graphikretrospektive, Bibliothéque Nationale, Paris, France
1988
Georg Baselitz – Dipinti 1965-1987, Sala d’Arme di Palazzo Veccio, Florence, Italy
1987
Georg Baselitz – das plastische Werk, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
1985
Georg Baselitz – Vier Wände, Skulpturen, Gemälde, Zeichnungen, Holzschnitte, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur in 1986
Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1984
Recent Paintings, Mary Boone / Michael Werner Gallery, New York
La Grande Parade, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1983
Retrospektive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; traveled to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
Xavier Fourcade, New York
1981
Retrospektive, Kunsthalle, Bern; traveled to Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, and Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
Straßenbild, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1979
Georg Baselitz, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Georg Baselitz, Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
1976
Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
1972
Georg Baselitz: Bilder und Zeichnungen, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Georg Baselitz – Portretten, Galerie im Goeth-Institut-Provisorium. Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1970
Franz Dahlem im Galeriehaus, Lindenstrasse, Cologne, Germany
1966
Warum das Bild ‚Die großen Freunde‘ ein gutes Bild ist, Rudolf Springer, Berlin
1965
Galerie Friedrich & Dahlem, Munich, Germany
1963
Gallery Michael Werner & Katz, Berlin, Germany
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Faces & Figures, Skarstedt, New York, London, Paris
2021
Faces and Figures, Skarstedt, New York
An Ideal Landscape, Gagosian, New York
Hong Kong Exchange, Gagosian, New York
2020
Inspiraatio – Nykytaide & Klassikot, Ateneum, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki, Finland
Contemporary Art: Five Propositions, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
2019
Portraits, Skarstedt, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Skarstedt 64th Street, New York
2018
Counterpoint: Selections from the Peter Marino Collection, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York
A New Spirit Then, A New Spirit Now: 1981–2018, Almine Rech, New York
2017
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2016
Portraits, Skarstedt, New York
Creature, The Broad Museum, Los Angeles, California
Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
2015
German Art since 1960, Essel Museum, Vienna, Austria.
All the World’s Futures, 56th International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Portraits from the École des Beaux-Arts Paris, The Drawing Center, New York
Painted Blind, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Natural Histories, Gagosian, Athens, Greece
Georg Baselitz & Emilio Vedova, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2014
Eurasia: A View on Painting, Thaddaeus Ropac Pantin, Paris, France
Summer Exhibition 2014, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
One Way: Peter Marino, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
Bad Thoughts, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Summer Presentation, De Pont Museum, Tilburg, Netherlands
Georg Baselitz, Anselm Kiefer, Harmony Korine, Robert Rauschenberg, Julian Schnabel, Rudolf Stingel, Franz West, Gagosian, New York
Germany divided: Baselitz and his generation, The British Museum, London, United Kingdom
2013
Stories of History, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
Munch by Others, Haugar Art Museum, Tønsberg, Norway
From Gesture to Language, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Albertina Contemporary, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
DISASTER / The End of Days, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
in progress, Werke aus der mumok Sammlung, mumok, Vienna, Austria
2012
Hieroglyphs, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, Texas
Zeitgespenster, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
BILDERBEDARF. The Civic and the Arts, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
Stadt-Land-Fluss, Galerie Henze & Keterer, Wichtrach/Bern, Germany
The Biennale of the Art of Painting: Man In Focus, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
Electric fields: Surrealism and beyond - La collection du Centre Pompidou, The Power Station of Art, Shanghai, China
Self Portrait, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Disfiguration, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Grotesque Factor, Museo Picasso Malaga, Malaga, Spain
2011
Selections from the Guggenheim Bilbao Collection II, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Flowers for Summer, Michael Werner, New York
Folk Thing Zero, Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
Royal Academy Summer Show, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
Made in Italy, Gagosian, Rome, Italy
Georg Baselitz/ Eugene Leroy/ Albert Oehlen, Nicolas Krupp, Basel, Switzerland
Un Corps Inattendu, Frac Auvergne, Clermont Ferrand
The Pilgrim, The Tourist, The Flaneur (and The Worker), Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2010
Kupferstichkabinett, Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London
There is Something about these pictures.., Works from Collection Museum Frieder-Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art , Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, California
lla Romana a Firenze: 105 anni di residenze per artisti, CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia, Italy
LE GRAND GESTE! - Informel and Abstract Expressionism, 1946-1964 Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Wing in the Contemporary Art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2009
Donation Thaddaeus Ropac, MDM Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
Aus dem Stamm. Die Sinnlichkeit des materials, Holzskulptur heute, Kunstverein Wilhemshohe, Ettlingen, Germany
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
IVAM Centre Julio Gonzales, Valencia, Spain
Scapa Memories, Eine Sammlung - Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland.
Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures, Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, California
Paint Made Flesh, The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
7 x 14 Jubiläumsausstellung, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
La Escultura en la Colección del IVAM, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
DEFIANCE & MELANCHOLY - German Painting from the Dresden Albertinum / Galerie Neue Meister, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wintry, Magazzino d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
War Cultures, Deutsches Historisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
2008
Zeichnungen aus dem Karl August Burckhardt-Koechlin-Fonds, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland
En perspective, Giacometti, Musée des Beaux Arts, Caen, France
Die Skulpturen der Maler, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
made in munich - editionen von 1968-2008, Haus der Kunst München, Munich, Germany
UBS Openings: Paintings from the 1980s, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Gouge: The Modern Woodcut 1870 to Now, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
XXth Century, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Auerbach, Soutine, Baselitz, Moholy Nagy, and Brandtner: Four Countries: Five Artists, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
MATRIX/REDUX, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, California
Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom
The Immediate Touch: German, Austrian, Swiss Drawings from St. Louis Collections, 1946 - 2007, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
Whole Lotta Love, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany
2007
Georg Baselitz in dialog with Emilio Vedova, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
Liebe auf den ersten Blick (Love at First Sight), Museum Würth, Künzelsau, Germany
Exposures: The Contemporary Self-Portrait, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Kunst nach 1970: Aus der Sammlung der Albertina, Albertina, Vienna, Austria
A tribute - 35 years of the Essl Collection, Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg, Wien, Germany
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1-2-3: The Collection in Focus, Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest, Hungary
What Is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Paint It Blue, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
2006
Georg Baselitz, Jörg Immendorff, Markus Löpertz, A.R. Penck, Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
Implosion, Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Silent Power - Baselitz, Immendorff, Lupertz, Penck, Himalayas Art Museum, Shanghai, China
Eye on Europe - Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tokyo Blossoms, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Bucolica, the contemporary landscape, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Die Gesichter hinter den Bildern, The Columns, Seoul, South Korea
Mirada multiple, Museo de Bellas Artes de Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2005
Benjamin Katz und Georg Baselitz, Attori a rovescio, Imperia, Italy
The Figure In and Out of Space, Gagosian Gallery, W. 24th Street, New York
Big Bang, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d ́Art Moderne, Paris, France
Stratification: An Installation of Works since 1960, Busch-Reisinger Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Private/Corporate III, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York
2004
Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000, Tretjakow Galerie, Moscow; Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Weltsichten, Meisterwerke der Zeichnung, Graphik und Photographie, Kupferstichkabinett, Dresden, Germany
The Tom Bendhem Collection, The London Jewish Museum of Art, London, United Kingdom
Vision einer Sammlung, Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg, Austria
Neue Räume in der Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany.
German Art - Deutsche Kunst aus amerikanischer Sicht, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
El regreso de los Gigantes - Pintura alemana 1975-1985 ón Deutsche Bank, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile
An International Legacy, Nevada Museum of Art NMA, Reno, Nevada
Shanghai Art Museum: Encounters with Modernism, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2003
Embracing the Present - The UBS Art Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Soltanto un quadro al massimo: Cucchi-Baselitz, Deutsche Akademie Rom Villa Massimo, Rome, Italy
Collection Display - Positions in Painting: 1970 – 1985, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Un jardin secret - Collection Monique Dorsel et Emile Lanc, Centre de la Gravure et de l'Image imprimée, La Louvière, Belgium
50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Obras seleccionadas - Colección de Arte Contemporáneo Fundación "la Caixa.", Patio Herreriano - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Español, Valladolid, Spain
2002
Confronting Identities in German Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois
Meisterwerke Der Graphischen Sammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Man in the Middle - From the Deutsche Bank collection, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Time Space Motion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
A Selection from the Erasmus Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands
Rough Cuts - European Figurative Prints from Gauguin to Paladino, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2001
Sculpture versus Painting, IVAM Centre, Valencia, Spain
Thirty-Five Drawings, Richard Gray Gallery, New York
Reise in die Niederlande 1972-1999, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Modern Woodcut, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, Massachusetts
Geometrie & Gestus, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Vision, Toyota Municipal Museum of Art, Toyota Aichi, Japan
A Journey Into Painting, Museo dell ́ Arredo Contemporanea, Russi Ravenna, Italy
Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
2000
The Cities Collect, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Visage: Painting and the Human Face in 20th-Century Art, National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto (MOMAK), Kyoto, Japan
Landschaften eines Jahrhunderts, MMK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Wörlen, Passau, Germany
1999
Creacion y figura. Figuracion en el siglo XX , Fundacion Bancaja, Alicante, Spain
House of sculpture, Museum of Moden Art, Fort Worth, Texas
Kunst - Welten im dialog , Von Gauguin zur globalen Gegenwart - Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Examining Pictures - Exhibition of 56 artists links generations of painters, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, Illinois
The first view, ESSL Museum, Klosterneuburg, Austria
1998
Magie der Baume, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
The Hess collection - new works, Forum d’art contemporain Casiono Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Louisiana at 40: The Collection Today, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
1997
Man in the Middle, Menschenbilder Kunsthalle, Tübingen, Germany
"Expressiv!, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Menschenbilder, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
Magasin 3. Selection from the collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj, Denmark
La sculpture des peintres, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul de Vence, France
Skulptur - Projekte in Munster 1997, Westphalian State Museum of Art and Cultural History, Munster, Germany
1996
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Bard College, New York
Baselitz – Lüpertz, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1995
Editions from Maximilian Verlag, Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Unser Jahrhundert, Menschenbilder - Bilderwelten. Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The muse? Transforming the image of woman in Contemporary art, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Der Blick hinter den Spiegel - Bildnisse und selbstbildnisse in der sammlung wurth, Museum Wurth, Kunzelsau, Germany
1994
The Essential Gesture, Newport Harbor Museum, Newport Beach, California
German Art - Aspekte deutscher kunst 1964/1994, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
The Tomantic Spirit in German Art 1790–1990, Royal Scottish Academy and Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland. Traveled to Hayward Gallery and South Bank Centre, London, United Kingdom; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1993
Denmark: Works 1990-1993, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, Denmark
1992
Transform, BildObjektSkulptur im 20. Jahrhundert - Kunstmuseum und Kunsthalle, Basel
Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany
1991
La sculpture contemporaine après 1970, Fondation Daniel Templon Musée Temporarire, Fréjus, France
Ansichten von Figur in der Moderne: skulptur exemplarisch I, Stadtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
1989
Bilderstreit, Messehallen, Cologne, Germany
Einleuchten: Will, Vorstel & Simul in HH, Hamburg Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Sculpture, Centre national des arts plastiques, Roeun, France
1988
Arbeit in Geschichte, Geschichte in Arbeit - Kunsthaus, Hamburg, Germany
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1987
L’époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Standing sculpture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
1986
In Tandem: The painter/sculptor in the 20th century, Whitchapel Art Gallery, London, United Kingdom
1985
German Art in the 20th Century, Royal Academy, London, United Kingdom
The European Iceberg, Creativity in Germany and Italy Today, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Wild visionary spectral-new German Art, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adeleide, Australia. Traveled to Art Gallery of western Australia, Perth, Australia and National Art Gallery, Wellington, Australia
1984
La Grande Parade, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Legendes, A Michel Montaigne, Musée d’art contemporain CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Bella Figura, Eine skulptur-Ausstellung, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Von hier aus. Zwei Monate neue deutsche kunst in Dusseldorf, Messegelande Halle 13, Dusseldorf, Germany
An international Survey of recent painting and sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1983
Expressions: New Art from Germany, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri. Traveled to The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; The contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Zeitgeist, Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
1981
A New Spirit in Painting, Royal Academy of Arts, London, United Kingdom
Westkunst, Messehallen, Cologne, Germany
traßenbild, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
1980
Modell für eine Skulptur, German Pavilion, Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
1976
Galerieverein München, Munich, Germany
Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany
1975
XIII Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
1974
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
1966
Die große Feude, Galerie Springer, Berlin, Germany
1962
2. Pandämonium, Berlin, Germany
1961
1. Pandämonium, Manifesto and Exhibition with Eugen Schönbeck, Berlin-Charlottenburg, Germany
AWARDS
2012 Légion d'Honneur, France
2010 Honorary Citizenship of Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy
2009 Full member of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts, Munich, Germany
2009 Cologne-Fine-Art-Preis des Bundesverband Deutscher Galerien und Editionen, Cologne, Germany
2008 B.Z.—Kulturpreis, Berlin, Germany
2006 Honarary Citzenship of the city of Imperia, Italy. 2005 Award Incontri-Encounters, ICIT, Imperia, Italy
2006 Austria decoration of honor for science and art, Vienna, Austria. 2004 Praemium Imperiale Award, Tokyo, Japan
2003 Niedersächsicher Staatspreis, Germany
2002 Commandeur de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France
1999 Honorary Professorship at the Royal Academy of Arts, London, England. 1986 Kaiserring Goslar, Goslar, Germany
