Express Levering Georg Baselitz – Sigmund?s Cave – Anselm Wagner, Georg Baselitz

A dog is a dog is a dog or is it? Renowned German neo-expressionist artistGeorge Baselitz s dog portraits of 1999/2000 continue his play with the notion ofpainting as an act of sublimation in which naked facts are dressed in signs, codesand ornaments. This well-illustrated exhibition catalog, with informative essay byAnselm Wagner, presents Baselitz s large-scale upside-down frontal oil portraits of hisdog that are fundamentally different from the artist s other animal portraits. Painted inblack and white, …