And fast have basil it is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesnt want to take part himself a really. To this or that stuff 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 lies on the tree of that is going. On. In two thousand and eleven a sensation at south that is in london the collection of count dot com is going under the hammer masterworks of the Twentieth Century including nine by the young boss and. Gilt boss and its his paintings all sinister and aggressive at this auction they fetched. Lysis. Won by a paid three point two Million Pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant from the us dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a bottle 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 ten day also patch in south book because it is a shy basel 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 wasnt specific as a figure because your feet were in two thousand and seven so Norman Rosenthal devoted the Royal Academy his biggest ever retrospective to georg bassinets that socrates foolish often does it 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 do mr minister 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 hand in the leading museums worldwide even so hes been a skinhead when it comes to criticism. Levied or a bottle to transpose on the thread ive always noticed with basil its that hes incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph. Going to argue to. Call it shows hope. Man recently retired curator at munichs modern art museum that pina could take them all down the exhibited thousand hits as he is than one hundred seventy is she devoted a whole room to him presenting a crosssection of his different periods to make medicine a full of pain design crazy theyre very sensible very deliberate very controlled people know if they do something they know precisely why theyre doing it the you or boston it is not just a paying ten graphic artist and sculptor hes also a passionate collector of african not and mannerism drawings his friends say he absorbs everything i can spawn one of those who infused about positive very early on with the connector and. Off they became friends. Puzzle is if you can be over there at it our closets is a family man with a nice wife and well brought up children would have sold mccain down our list to us from the outside he could be a senior Civil Servant and his bizarre ship. In two thousand and six thousand its moved from northern germany to birth area setting up his consulate den a book unless saxony he settled on the shores of lake ama munich he occupies extensive premises built by architects have soaked and. Only you and all different time for 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 that manner but hes not a toll was and it was born in saxony but has declared the ability spot on lake to be his new home of choice when he so damn about council he also sold a large part of his collection. When American Investment bank it was time to move on theres no 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. Its. The bavarians an inquisitive bunch of mercury here that i was. Battling its lives a reclusive life hidden behind fences and trainees you want to view the artist at work forgetting. Alice ross yeah so mark everything he does is quality was this is a true man and he now lives in a house he commissioned from a very good architect. A bonus. So varia can take pleasure in the fact that one of germanys leading artists lives here but it was a long journey. In one nine hundred fifty eight boston its 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 health of the city the young painter was in on land his painting was out of tune with the times he still didnt have a deal. We have what an island governor i said we all had rooms of our own in a big fat chair but bartletts and 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 studios 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 and they asked us gunnies and then as a. Sixty we have em 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 full folder with ten watercolors i was totally fascinated and goodness ashley trusts him yet i was going to run after him of those days you could pick up a student watercolor for thirty marks that was the going rate times ten makes three hundred dollars 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 his back cost i will not. I think its fair to do the math. He set up his gonorrhoea in one thousand nine hundred sixty three together with benyamin caps they represented basel its along with other german painters of the wild school that it was here at the first. But this is a sausage and. There are still works by basel its in the galleries depository early works even though he hasnt been basel it says official diena for some hands now. The early work by gail deposits was not in tune with the times it is dark in color dark psychologically and obscene his paintings were provocative most especially the big night down the drain. To the sky in 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 these 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 i meant intellect africa had finished conflict here 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 toll but they treated it as an episode you could easily forget i had i had the episode of argument over if i guess and life suggested 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 xpress it style alongside bartletts and his dealer and Michelle Vanna with the painters they are paying him and doff and marcus lee pat. Marcus new pat lang to an sculptor in his studio as an old friend and colleague in those basel it says what well his op was to stop with and fooled an act of rebellion. Is go buy the album and there was a general consensus that painting should be free of pornography free of smut at most you could paint nudes but it had to be serious or 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 divan their biggest for this is for ending in their model by dr. Bassett it shocked Respectable Society that his dark works one exhibition and the vanna and katz gallery sparked a scandal the tabloids had a great time they shared. Their granddad a 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. As did they are the scottish way out from the Public Prosecutor had never heard of it asked us about it and reappears below to arrive promptly the next day to cover the plot next the tough. It worked the Public Prosecutor stepped in the pictures were confiscated the press had a field day the sun was it just an Advertising Campaign for boston. Paul motian first though 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 have developed bad therefore dilshan very slow but we were both unsuccessful artists and bartletts was subjected to more attacks 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. Publics if you do become shot here it just gives me. Time to do this whole little thing his pictures didnt sell any better. Stop im far from unplugged there 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. So i was just wondering if that is i was after this exhibition basel its really turned against berlin and left the city i think he still doesnt like it on this. Day 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 all the attributes of his art remained abrasive and sinister his reputation as a specific german panta hard. But it is the days of a torch a target so hes in this tradition hes a german painter he acknowledges his debt to the german expressionists and to alter dicks people say he embraces his ugly painting right but when you called to the village about it i dont think so how do you how you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition had to. Learn about and deal with the german when a song says this is the tradition in which basel it sees himself as a painter. To form off torch to 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 do it and crown are 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 as theres a particular form of abstraction which people are mostly placed in landscapes where they dont belong for example and i enjoy. That. Gail bassinets was born again can in the village of dutch boston its in saxony in nine hundred thirty eight his parents with teaches it was a nine hundred sixty one the teach 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 can 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 the joy of. The korean artists say oh stop it at the violin aunt academy she was in professor basel its cost in two thousand and three she became his monster pupil. I am tired i have to say 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 painting and dont forget where you come from its all you dont push your clothes if you didnt. I guess simple do have cause positives had a few years ago nasa is confronted the works of american painters and we exhibited these works here in south spoke and in pairs he said he looked at the cooney twice and wanted to imitate the brush strokes of this Great American painter brushstroke he also looked at the works of Jackson Pollock and he tried out the dripping technique which is good for all that he could never escape from his own brush technique called because it is simply so striking the very devil saw mark can it is this is a force and its profit is like a language the way he uses the brush him shirish decision 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 to the human ability and he can listen as 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 might be embarrassing but whos going to want you in the studio with greatness companies are very cool for july fifth. Ok in any bassinets does allow himself to be observed at what he now thinks his pictures on the floor but that has not deprived him of any of them momentum. I basel it has never actually achieved harmony hes always been the aggressive painter and thats what sets him apart in the model i could believe in one does sort 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 c. F. Adoption depict his aunt and chris that they are in the larger of the sphere of two kifah 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 but his team of this is that hes got a great deal to do with german history is he mad as hell to get out of to cry for the transaction off me its a toy so whats a hero then she things that arent any heroes anymore anyway its a target 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. Knife gods and artist hearings. And his friends. In. Marcus new pants on the left. And michelle van on the right the brave men of the art business. Heads of mission kind of poke at superheroes on provocative i cant follow that argument and falsely their quote illustrations on his view of the artist. As the dash to could study says the construct 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 a gift of god on affordable i want the nation. So no other nation 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 for us in a little bit on the school bus your good went as its why for example. On the way to work is a collage of the whole situation it. 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 does at that is it and tutored was good looked at the picture itself is his own idea of himself id say the stuff. Thats in the option that sort of is in new york in one thousand nine hundred ninety one paid the record price of more than a Million Dollars for look at this reached out only way to work its precisely there were men to carry paintings that still make top prices vacillates pictures can be found in all the major museums and collectors are still often. As not being considered a knee he is of course an artist who never sticks to a cycle for very long but always quickly moves on to the next we 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 there already. The whole market is an upside down motif painterly trick maintaining to this warm. Notes in hundred million stations 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 leaves me onions after i had 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 heads too no he said i just wanted to tell my friends so we must all paint things on their heads for a year because gales invented it but gail said no hed rather do it alone and thats what he did for that an opera. A simple idea with a huge effect on the forest upside down in this way boston its revolutionized traditional Landscape Painting and gave it a new lease of life. The. Door to basle it is methods of inverting pictures is only possible when its deliberately seen as abstract otherwise itll 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 used to form the abstracts on. The white cube gallery in london on display at boston it serious a fool an