About have vassalage is being portrayed in forty five minutes and honored but he doesnt want to take part himself a really. Lot of these are backed up by 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 i was going to be all that is going to. Want to do in two thousand and eleven a sensation that suthep is in london the collection of count do economists going on to the hama mosque a works of the Twentieth Century including nine by the young boston. Boston its his paintings also sinister and aggressive at this function they fetched prices. One by a pay three point two Million Pounds for spectrum not a man with a giant phallus dating from one thousand nine hundred sixty five the highest price ever paid for a boss in its. Full deal because lives in exhaustible creator of pitches stagnation is a foreign word time and again he comes up with reinterpretations of well known motifs dogs hang light and airy in the gallery of his today also go 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 as its a picasso figure because you feel good in two thousand and seven so Norman Rosenthal devoted the von academys biggest ever retrospective to georg bassinets that months obviously shocked us all 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 as quote on knocking him every day as if you are mr means that 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 hand in the leading museums worldwide even so hes been a skinned when it comes to criticism. Has been levied or bathurst compass and often i have always noticed with basil its that hes incredibly sensitive to statements he sees as negative almost like a seismograph always shockingly i get to. Call a show tough man. Recently retired curator at munichs modern art museum and the pina could take them all down the exhibited thousand hits as early as the one nine hundred seventy is she devoted a whole room to him presenting a crosssection of his different periods to me as im 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 on boston its not just a painter graphic artist and sculptor hes also a passionate collector of africa not and memories drawings his friends say he absorbs everything up a sponge one of those who infused about father that very early on with the connect the hands. Through art they became friends. In the. Puzzle is really 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 as from the outside he could be a senior Civil Servant and it was often. In two thousand and six thousand its moved from northern germany to the that area setting up his consulate deneb book in lower saxony he settled on the shores of lake ama i mean nick he occupies extensive premises built by architects hats oak and. Only you and all different time for a change boss of this is supposed to have said. As in symmetry here is a very natural frank and so for short person you dont immediately see hes not just. I was too busy 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 a deliberate spot on lake to be his new home of choice when he sold deneb a council he also sold a large part of his collection to enemy. Mark an investment banker it was time to move on is needed to invigorate 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 its like we want to leave him in peace after all hes supposed to be creating upgrade and thats why he came specially to be very i think some of. The bavarians an inquisitive bunch of mercury here where i was. Basel its lives a reclusive life hidden behind fences and trees you want to view the artist at work forgetting. I miss ross yeah so mark everything he does is quality was as a true man and he now lives in a house he commissioned from a very good architect. A bonus. So the very i 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 palace ating 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 and. We avoided a lot and i said we all had rooms of our own in a big flat share 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 studio 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 i guess he just got a set than ourselves. 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 in this absolute trust senior. 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 fifteen i said leave the others ill come back he said keep your fifty marks and what i said thats a fair price what do you mean he said there are three hundred each that if we consider all of. That. Than you expected you might. Still 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 painters of the wild school that it was here to. Visit to see if. There are still routes by basel its in the galleries depository early works even though he hasnt been basel it says official dealer for some hands. In. The early work by georg basel it was not in june that 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 star 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 almost intellect africa had finished consequently it pushed id 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 the episode of argument over if i guess and life suggested contact. 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 bozza lids and his deal and michel them with the painters and we are painting him and doth and marcus new paths. Markers new paths painter and sculptor in his studio as an old friend and colleague in those basel its what well his art was to stop with and sort an act of rebellion. Is got by the album and there was a general consensus that painting should be free of pornography free of smart 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 importing dignity and perfection you must remember these are the terms in which people talked of painting them with the full and dont go and visit the divine theyre bigger for disease for ending in their model by dr. Bassett shocked Respectable Society that his dog whats one exhibition in the van and cats gallery spot to scandal the tabloids had a great time they shed. Some die there 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 the vice squad move in they screamed it was all lies. As did they all the scottish way out from the Public Prosecutor had never heard of it starts out right at the a place below thirty arrived promptly the next day to cover but i plugged next into. It what the Public Prosecutor stepped in the pictures were confiscated the press had a field day who was it just an Advertising Campaign for basel. 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 may have developed bad therefore dilshan a slow. The bible 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 fight it in. Time to end this whole litany fact his pictures didnt sell any better. Stop on trial for unplugs it was a court case the pictures were confiscated there was a huge outcry in the press they really went for me and i was certainly annoyed to say the least it was very unpleasant as. Well as 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 on this. Day and his family moved to the country in the one nine hundred seventy five he brought down a book consul never held as high on his body it was kept growing by all the attributes of his ot remained abrasive and sinister in his reputation as a specific german painter. And. It is the days of a gorgeous hobbit to 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 but can you call do that i believe about it i dont think so you can call them hush and there is certainly a certain harshness in the german art tradition have to. Do in about and deal with the german a sometime this week the tradition in which basel it sees himself as a painter. To fulfill which 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 it but thats what i did was just ask what does german painting look like. And i began where one does begin with do that 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 in 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 and i consider. That. Gail bassinets was born again or can in the village of dutch boston its in saxony in one thousand nine hundred thirty eight his parents were teachers 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 autistic skills in drawings as well as the german harshness. Or destructive care trade and can i think its true of all artists that to a certain extent 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 i can make. The korean artists say oh stop it at the burden onto cademy she was in professor botanists 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 pains off the trolley and put them to one side he only left me some very narrow issue of 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 joy ok sure chris 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 paris he said he looked at the clinic twice and wanted to imitate the brush strokes of this Great American painter he also looked at the works of Jackson Pollock and his he tried out the dripping technique at which but for all that he could never escape from his own brush technique called because it is simply so striking in baghdad for so my candidate is this is africa and if profit is like a language the way he uses the brush in the sim shirish decisions betrayed order he sure 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 sentiments 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 with a screen those companies are very cool for july very. Patient and they bounce and it doesnt allow himself to be observed oclock you know paint 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 leave him on to us what in your. Bassinets remains true to himself as an artiste. The most effect off 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 marquis of germany saffron darshan depict his aunt and kiss the deer and the larva does feed off to cairo 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 but he says team of this is that its got a great deal to do with german history he made as he didnt get out of to cry from the transaction often it touch it so what sahara then she things that arent any heroes anymore we owe it to doug for him a brave man simply someone praised in song with statues in his honor someone who does Something Special like a knife god actually in my. Life gods and artist heroes. And his friends. On the left. And we share them on the right the brave men of the art business. Did that mission kind of poke at superheroes provocative i cant follow that argument and falsely their quote illustrations on his view of the artist. As as the dash to construct such a construct so depiction of the artist as he felt him to be in those days isolated under attack attack here at. The hero pictures serve to point up artistic selfassertion bassinets himself calls one of them ideal picture a gift of god an affordable i with elevation. So i know the nature 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. But on this one as you went as its why for example on the way to work is a collage of the whole situation of those who was a painter from saxony thats important and hes not held in high regard for his work borders on. Basel its only mentioned him in the title or not that at that is a done tutor and was good looked at the picture itself is his own idea of himself id say the sound. At an auction at sothebys in new york in one thousand nine hundred ninety one paid the record price of more than a Million Dollars for loot this rishta only way to walk its precisely there were meant to carry paintings that still make top prices fascinates pictures can be found in all the major museums and collector system often. 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 emotionally to its always the next thing while youve still got the last one in your head when youre surprised because the next ones theyre already in. The home. The bartletts is an upside down motif a painted trick maintaining to this game. That not in hundred million one 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 put it only for me i know exactly what it 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 gayles invented it but gail said no hed rather do it alone and thats what he did for that on our camera. A simple idea with a huge effect on the forest upside down in this way revolutionized traditional Landscape Painting and gave it a new lease of life through. The. Door to basle it is methods 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 rich to form the up starts on. The white cube gallery in london on display at boston it serious a fool an eagles and old motif reinterpreted and almost compulsively repeated it refuses to leave the artist to learn. Some cheap get a sense of party you see pollock and all the abstract painting which has a sense of quality versus fundraising leashed. In th