Painter Georg Baselitz on Why He Thinks We're Living in a 'Quota-ocracy,' and What It Takes to Be a Great Artist Today
Georg Baselitz, Amersee, Germany, 2020. Photo ©Elke Baselitz 2021. Courtesy Gagosian. Georg Baselitz has been stirring up controversy for over half a century. The artist, who is now 83, was the subject of an obscenity trial in the 1960s over his painting of a young boy holding an exaggerated phallus. He later showed wooden figures appearing to give Nazi salutes at the 1980 Venice Biennale, and more recently he made comments in the press casting aspersions on the abilities of women artists. When I caught up with him, the artist was in Venice for the opening of an exhibition of new work in t...
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