Arafat have basil it is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesnt want to take part in self a really. That is of action a studio is a workshop im hard at work here i cant put up with disturbances in the workshop i cant have an audience in there even if its just a camera no way. In two thousand and eleven a sensation that south that is in london the collection of count do economists going under the hammer masterworks of the Twentieth Century including nine by the young boston and. Boston its his paintings all sinister and aggressive at this function they fetched black or. Prices. One buyer paid three point two Million Pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant fantasy dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a boss in its. Full gallop bozza lives in exhaustible creator of pitches stagnation is a foreign word time and again he comes up with lee interpretations of well known motifs dongs hang lightened airy in the gallery of his dales little patch in south book because it is a shy because the boss of its a certainly one of the very great painters of our age its not just in germany but internationally here certainly appreciated by the art market we see a Continuous Development of this appreciation its all for me one of the most important artists of the centuries and thats the Mission Model its a bit crass a figure because you feel good in two thousand and seven so Norman Rosenthal devoted the vol academys biggest ever retrospective to georg bassinet that months artificially shocked us as a whole i dont mean hes as important as picasso but you can talk about him in the same breath as because of this and think of him on this level this could go on and knock him every day as if you dont wish to mean this with you as i dont regard myself as the bearer of any message or as a magician who turns everything he touches to art but as opposed to it works according to and yet hes a star of the art world his works hang in the leading museums worldwide even so hes been a skinned when it comes to criticism. Should be levied or bottle to transpose on the face i have always noticed with basil its that hes incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph weve always thought only i get to. Call it shows home. Man recently retired curator at munichs modern art museum and the pain that could take them identify exhibited thousand hits as early as the one nine hundred seventy s. She devoted a whole room to him presenting a crosssection of his different periods to me as im a forward pain design crazy theyre very sensible very deliberate very controlled people know if they do something they know precisely why theyre doing it. Boss and its not just a painter and graphic artist and sculptor hes also a passionate collector of africa not and manner is drawings his friends say he absorbs everything i can spawn one of those who infused about father that very early on with the connector and guta through art they became friends. Browser this is if you can peer over there at it doesnt its is a family man with a nice wife and well brought up children would have sold me kinda had i missed us from the outside he could be a senior Civil Servant and hes been suffering. In two thousand and six thousand its moved from northern germany to that area setting up his consulate then a book unless saxony he settled on the shores of lake ama munich he occupies expensive premises built by architects hats oak and. Only you and all different time for a change faucets is supposed to have said. As in general to me here is a very natural frank and so for short person you dont immediately see hes not just. Too busy should be able other people usually think of artists as rather extravagant in their manner but hes not a toll plaza its was born in saxony but has declared the spot on lake ama to be his new home of choice when he sold dan a book also he also sold a large part of his collection. An American Investment banker it was time to move on. Hes not integrated sure but thats not a precondition thats the case with all celebrities there are others who are courthouses here we dont say you have to belong we want to leave him in peace after all hes supposed to be creating upgrade and thats why he came specially to bavaria i think some of. The bavarians an inquisitive bunch of mercury here i was. Battling its lives a reclusive life hidden behind fences and trains you want to be you have the artist at work get an. Honest price and so marked everything he does is quality was this is in trouble and he now lives in a house he commissioned from a very good architect. A bonus. So the variac can take pleasure in the fact that one of germanys leading artists lives here but it was a long journey. In one thousand nine hundred fifty eight bassinets moved to west berlin after being expelled from the academy of visual and applied arts in the communist east the reason given was social and political in maturity in the pulse eighteen capitalist half of the city the young painter was a man his painting was out of tune with the times he still didnt have a deal. We wouldnt eleanor know as we all had rooms of our own in a big flat share but basil its in his family already had a flat to themselves a party had been announced and i saw footmarks streaks of paint and so i thought lets go to the studio and then posits appeared behind me and said pretty roughly what are you doing here i said what am i supposed to do im an art dealer i just want to look into your studio i dont suppose theyll be another chance this is no way he said or and they asked us counties and they have a. Stick in the oven but then he thought a moment and said just a moment ago he squeezed through into the studio and came out holding a small a four folder with ten watercolors i was totally fascinated and go this absolute trust senior. In of those days you could pick up a student watercolor first thirty marks that was the going rate times ten makes three hundred dollars i keep it well i had fifty i said leave the others ill come back he said keep your fifty marks what i said thats a fair price what do you mean he said that three hundred each that if we comes off he is practiced i will not. I think its fair to imagine you. Will have to set up his gallery in one thousand nine hundred sixty three together with benyamin caps they represented boston its along with other german paintings of the wild school in the one that was used to do. This lets have a sit down and. There are still works by basel its in the galleries depository early works even though he hasnt been basel it says official deal if a song lands now. In. The early work by gail basil its was not in chile with the times it is dark in color dark psychologically and obscene his paintings were provocative most especially the big night down the drain. On the early years of germanys affluent Society People didnt want to see this filth or they didnt want to figures at all they wanted nothing to do with the past they didnt want this dirty colors they wanted their clean fridge and their shiny car but they didnt want to be confronted with the dirt of the past what element intellect africa had finished constantine and pushed i thought that went hand in hand with the economic miracle in germany people wanted to sweep it all under the carpet i dont mean they wanted to deny it all but they treated it as an episode you could easily forget i had it to sort of argument over its i guess in life suggestion contra. But there was a group of young painters prepared to confront the past whatever the artist opposition and said among those fighting for a new espresso in style. Alongside bartletts and his dealer and we share them with the painters and are paying him and off and market at. Marcus new tatts painter and sculptor in his studio as an old friend and colleague in those basel it is what well his art was to start with and i thought an act of rebellion. Is gonna buy the album and there was a general consensus that painting should be free of pornography free of smart feet at most you could paint nudes but it had to be serious all the nude wasnt art will betide those who contravene this noble concept of art as embodying dignity and perfection you must remember these are the terms in which people talked of painting them with the full and dont want to sit in a divine theyre bigger if it isnt for a living in their mother by dr. Bassinets Respectable Society that has dark works one exhibition and the vanna and cats gallery sparked a scandal the tabloids had a great time they shared. Their candidate the scandal was got up by me in modern british he had good contacts to the hacks in berlin it was the silly season and they needed a headline or two so we gave them one vice squad move in they screamed it was all lies. Did they are the scottish way out from the Public Prosecutor had never heard of it asked us to write it on the abyss below to arrive promptly the next day to cover that plan next into. It worked the Public Prosecutor stepped in the pictures were confiscated the press had a field day and then was it. Last an Advertising Campaign for boston. Does a lot of promotion first of all it was a publicity stunt and it worked only we gain nothing from it we didnt have the courage to tell basel its wed made it all up because he was an extremely fragile neurotic type to you they have devalued by their four deals a very slow. We were both unsuccessful artists and basel its was subjected to more tax than i was even by the Public Prosecutor i believe. Hopped. Off but he was very brave about it i think he may even have been pleased because at least his name became known to the public so if you do become shot he fears that you have to leave. Time then this whole litany faked his pictures didnt sell any better. Stop im fall for unplugs it was a court case the pictures were confiscated there was a huge outcry in the press they really went for me i was certainly annoyed to say the least and it was very unpleasant as. Was to not remember that as i was after this exhibition basel its really turned against berlin and left the city i think he still doesnt like it. He and his family moved to the country in one nine hundred seventy five he bought dan a book consul never held. His body and kept growing while the attributes of his not remained abrasive and sinister his reputation as a specific german painter. And. It is two days ago it started to ease in this tradition hes a german painter he acknowledges his debt to the german expressionists and to auto dix people say he embraces his ugly painting but can you call to the village about it i dont think so you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition. Good enough out and deal with the german a sounds this is the tradition in which basel it sees himself as a painter. The form of george the accusation of being german you have to see how you cope with that you have to ask what sort of defense you can make but thats what i did was just ask what does german painting look like. And i began where one does begin with. In comparison with their contemporaries in italy france or england and here german painting does stand out and it stands out because it is ugly and on the others it is ugly for very definite reasons it doesnt operate on a life size scale things are reduced so theres a particular form of abstraction which people are mostly placed in landscapes where they dont belong for example in danger and so it. Gayo bosnich was born again or can in the village of doj bosn its in saxony in one nine hundred thirty eight his parents were teaches it was only in one nine hundred sixty one that he changed his name to that of the village where he spent his childhood already as a teenager he demonstrated his artistic skills in drawings as well as the german harshness. Of care trade and i think its true of all artists that to a certain extend like all of us they bear the stamp of their environment their history so they are bound into this cultural situation but to call him the most german of all german painters i really dont know what that supposed to mean but on. The korean artists say oh stop it at the burnin on to cademy she was in professor vogl its cause in two thousand and three she became his monster pupil. I have tile had just and i had painted some really cheerfully colored pictures and one day he came into the studio and took all the brushes and paintings off the trolley and put them to one side he only left me some very narrow asia brushes and black and white paint begin with these he said its just dont try to imitate european pain. And dont forget where you come from which i dont think youre clueless ok Dennis Ferguson photo here comes positive had a few years ago basel its confronted the works of american painters and we exhibited these works here in south spoke and in pairs he said he looked at the coon and twice and wanted to imitate the brush strokes of this Great American painter brushstroke he also looked at the works of Jackson Pollock and as he tried out the dripping technique which is good for all that he could never escape from his own brush technique of course because it is simply so striking in so mark hannitys this is africa and if profit is like a language the way he uses the brush in the sim shirish decisions be to order it dish or did he said the strength of the stroke develops the trail left by the brush that is so uniquely bartletts that try as he might to learn from other artists he can ultimately not get away from his own technique of to name it well its any kind of an accident and i said im going to be interesting he can give. You if youre a painter you have to paint for example with your feet or with your nose or from behind or back to front you must take no notice of anyone who might be embarrassing but whos going to want you in the studio its a scream its companies are very poor for july. And they bassinets doesnt allow himself to be observed at rock he now paints his pictures on the floor but that has not deprived him of any of them momentum. I vacillate says never actually achieved harmony hes always been the aggressive painter and thats what sets him apart in the mahler i could leave him on just what in your. Bassinets remains true to himself as an artiste. The most effect of maybe i need to go back to his most famous group of works i mean the heroes of the heroes such can be found in greek antiquity but when we think of Central Europe then theres a particular image of the hero that very strongly bears the mark of germany saffron dosh and get paid decent includes the idea and the large does feed off to care for after all that happened in germany and austria in the one nine hundred thirty s. And fortys an artist who maintains this critical detachment and takes up the themes of the hero its a chaotic and bonuses team of this is that its got a great deal to do with german history he made his head of it off to cry from the transaction often it gets authority so whats a hero then she things that arent any heroes anymore you know its a dog for him a brave man simply someone praised in song with tattoos in his honor someone who does Something Special like a knife god actually my. Knife gods and artist heroes. And his friends. On the left. And michel and then on the right the brave men of the art business. Did that mission kind of poor cats your heroes provocative i cant follow that argument and falsely their quote illustrations on his view of the artist. As as the dash to construction says to construct the third depiction of the artist as he felt him to be in those days isolated under attack attack here at. The hearing the pictures serve to point up artistic selfassertion bunzl it himself calls one of them ideal picture and gift of god another way to book a revelation. So i know the nature of the i dont draw profession but a situation and attitude which was very aggressive and turned its back on what was happening in berlin and elsewhere different. But all those. Went as its why for example. On the way to work is a collage of the whole situation. Was a painter from saxony thats important and hes not held in high regard his work borders on. Basel its only mentioned him in the title or and that at that was a done computer and was good looked at the picture itself is his own idea of himself id say but he said. Thats an option that sort of is in new york in one thousand nine hundred ninety one a buyer paid the record price of more than a Million Dollars for look at this rishta only way to work its precisely there were meant to carry paintings that still make top prices possible its pictures can be found in all the major museums and collectors are still often. Do you consider me he is of course an artist who never sticks to a cycle for very long but always quickly moves on to the next wed often prefer him to stick a bit longer to a particular series simply because the demand is there for completed groups of works but this curiosity this desire to jump from one thing to the next that fascinates me too in that sense every visit his studio is a surprise because you never know what youre going to get to see but its emerged. Its always the next thing while you still got the last one in your head youre surprised because the next ones theyre already in. The home market the bartletts is an upside down motif painterly trick maintaining to this game. That no two hundred nine hundred sixty nine bartletts has been standing his motives on their head this trick allows him to treat the subject more objective lee he can deflect attention from the obvious the magic statement and direct it towards the purely painterly as he puts it it only for me are known as are the hatchet ever called me and said i have it i know how to do it im going to paint abstract great i said then ill paint things on the head too no he said i just wanted to tell my friends so we must all paint things on their heads for a year because georgs invented it that said no hed rather do it alone and thats what he did for that one argument. A simple idea with a huge effect on the forest upside down in this way boston is revolutionized traditional Landscape Painting and gave it a new lease of life. People. Thought about it is method of inverting pictures is only possible when its deliberately seen as abstract otherwise itd be just silly to paint the world on its head thats not enough there must be some intellectual contemporary reference and in that sense its the highest form of abstraction to form the obstruction. The white kid gallery in london on display at boston it serious a fool an eagles an old motif reinterpreted and almos