‘In every drop of paint he slurped, you see the Holocaust’: the genius and torments of Georg Baselitz

The German artist lived through Nazism and communism – and his horrific, shaming works, including a masturbating Hitler, forced his country to face its past. Yet in later life, he beautifully captured human frailty, portraying himself and his wife nude Georg Baselitz was a living thread of history and his death robs us of the truth he knew when we need it more than ever. He was one of the only two people I have spoken to for whom Nazi Germany was a living memory: Baselitz was born in 1938, m...

By Jonathan Jones

Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned postwar art upside down, dies at 88 - The Straits Times

Georg Baselitz, the German painter who turned postwar art upside down, dies at 88  The Straits Times

Georg Baselitz, German Painter Who Turned Postwar Art Upside Down, Dies At 88

Georg Baselitz liked to insist - sometimes as a taunt, sometimes as a shield - that he did not know how to paint. That he had "no talent".