Welcome To The Exhibit Of Bad Painting Jun 7, 2008
Curators of a new exhibit at Vienna's Museum of Modern Art say the phenomenon began in the 1920s and is represented in works by celebrated 20th century artists such as Rene Magritte, Francis Picabia and Georg Baselitz. "They challenge their medium by using a range of incorrect, bad or ugly approaches in order to attack and criticize it by its own means," a panel tells visitors entering the show. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Weird News)
A colossal private sale by the heirs of a dealer Apr 4, 2008
Her galleries, the Sonnabend Gallery in New York and Galerie Ileana Sonnabend in Paris, exhibited a star-studded list of artists, including Warhol, Johns, Rauschenberg, Georg Baselitz and Claes Oldenburg. During the 1960s and '70s she introduced American Pop artists to Europeans, and European artists like Christo, Baselitz and the British duo Gilbert and George to Americans. (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
A collector's item: art dealer's 125m gift to the nation is ... Feb 29, 2008
Works by Jeff Koons, Bill Viola, Bruce Nauman, Georg Baselitz and Richard Hamilton will also feature. The Prime Minister said the gift would "open up art to new audiences" and that "individual acts of generosity like this impact on the lives of millions, and reinforce the UK's richly deserved reputation as having a range of world-leading museums and galleries". (Independent)
Bono-sponsored art auction raises 42.5 million dollars for AIDS Feb 15, 2008
Artists such as Georg Baselitz, Howard Hodgkin, Jasper Johns, Anish Kapoor and Jeff Koons contributed works for the red-themed Valentine's Day sale, which raised far more than the upper pre-sale estimate of 29 million dollars. Proceeds from the sale, organized by Bono's charity organization (RED), were to go directly to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs run by The Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria. (Yahoo! Asia News)
Deutsche Bank's Chief Art Collector Can't Afford Works by Hirst, Richter Dec 22, 2007
Gerhard Richter, Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke and Andreas Gursky all feature in the collection, which began in the 1970s. Yet Huette, 50, laughs when asked whether the bank would spend millions on a work by the U.K. artist Damien Hirst. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Jim Dine, Tony Labat and Ruth Eckland: wrecks, lies and videotape Dec 16, 2007
The sculptures carved in wood and loosely painted bring to mind the work of other prominent practitioners of direct carving, Georg Baselitz and Stephan Balkenhol. But Dine's sculptures have a strange, not-quite-ironic American spirit all their own. (San Francisco Chronicle)
Celeb Auction to Support HIV Programs Dec 6, 2007
Among the contributing artists: Hirst, Jeff Koons, Jasper Johns, Matthew Barney, Georg Baselitz, Cecily Brown and Douglas Gordon. The sale's proceeds - estimated at more than $40 million - will go to the United Nations Foundation to support HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa conducted by The Global Fund to fight AIDS, tuberculosis and malaria, Sotheby's said Wednesday. (ABC 7 News, DC)
Georg Baselitz and the destructive impulse Nov 24, 2007
BayerArtothek/Georg Baselitz Georg Baselitz's works on exhibit at the Royal Academy of Arts in London include "The Orange Eater I" (1981), an illustration of his ever more rudimentary brush technique ... This is not for want of opportunities, the latest of which is a show devoted to Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy of Art on view until Dec. 9 ... Photographs Georg Baselitz at the Royal Academy. (International Herald Tribune)
Ileana Sonnabend, 92,art dealer Oct 25, 2007
During the roaring '80s, Sonnabend gave New York debuts to the German painters A.R. Penck, Jorg Immendorf and Georg Baselitz, and she took on Neo-Geo artists like Ashley Bickerton, Peter Halley, and Koons as well as the painters Carroll Dunham and Terry Winters. But many of her artists defected to other galleries in the early 1990s, and by then Castelli's gallery had lost its prominence. (Atlanta Journal-Constitution -- World)
Georg Baselitz Praises Damien Hirst, Gives Upside-Down View of Art World Sep 24, 2007
Sept. 24 (Bloomberg) -- Georg Baselitz was infamous before he became famous, grabbing headlines for all the wrong reasons ... Georg Baselitz'' is at the Royal Academy, London, from Sept. 22 through Dec. 9. (Bloomberg -- UK)
Picasso Is Among Few Big Sales at Art Cologne as Fair Fatigue Hits Dealers Apr 21, 2007
Munich's Galerie Terminus sold a Georg Baselitz work, ``Glastrinker'' (``Drinking From a Glass''), for 760,000 euros, and two Frank Stella reliefs for 780,000 euros and 225,000 euros, according to Art Cologne. Galerie Springmann sold Picasso's 1964 wax-crayon drawing ``Le peintre et son model'' (``The painter and his model'') for 180,000 euros. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
Big on art: Seoul's major exhibitions for 2007 Jan 2, 2007
In February, MOCA will have its annual exhibition of a newly acquired collection, followed by an exhibit of German neo-expressionist Georg Baselitz in May. Other major exhibitions to be held in the first half of this year include Hangaram Design Museum's special exhibition of Musee d'Orsay in April, Gallery Ssamzie's "Paik Nam-june and his Fluxus friends" scheduled for later this month and two shows on Italian master sculptor Marino Marini (1901-1980) at the National Museum of Art, Deoksugung... (Korea Herald, Korea)
German gallery enters Korean art market Dec 31, 2006
Penck (1939- ) is among the group of established artists under exclusive contract with Schultz along with Georg Baselitz (1938- ), Markus Lupertz (1941- ) and Anselm Kiefer (1945- ). With the exception of Kiefer (his works could not be accommodated at the showroom because of their height), all of the pieces will be in Seoul as part of the first exhibition. (Korea Herald, Korea)
Goya masterworks to have first UK showing Nov 4, 2006
Norman Rosenthal, the RA's director of exhibitions, will in the autumn of 2007 curate a retrospective devoted to the German painter Georg Baselitz. His work was introduced to the British public at the academy as part of the 1981 exhibition A New Spirit in Painting. (Guardian Unlimited)
Cologne Art Scene Dwindles; Dealers, Artists Decamp to the Capital Berlin Nov 1, 2006
Later, in the 1970s and 1980s, his Cologne-based colleague Michael Werner was selling works by artists like Polke, Georg Baselitz and Joerg Immendorf. Writing in the New York Times magazine in 1992, art critic Deborah Solomon said Cologne even posed a threat to New York's status as world art capital. (Bloomberg -- Germany)
London's Frieze Serves Up Horn Installations, Chapman Brothers `Body Art' Oct 11, 2006
Thaddaeus Ropac has four Georg Baselitz paintings from the late 1990s at about $328,000 each. Eigen + Art has a Nicolai show. (Bloomberg -- Europe)
British artist wins 25,000 prize Jun 23, 2006
The other shortlisted artists were Sir Anthony Caro, Georg Baselitz, Flavia Irwin and Georgia Hayes. "I never expected to win against such an illustrious line-up," said Ms Joffe. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Shakers: Art fair opens to public after stampede of buyers Jun 15, 2006
Art fair opens to public after stampede of buyers LONDON: Art Basel opened Wednesday to the public after a series of private viewings Tuesday in which buyers stampeded the stands of PaceWildenstein, Barbara Gladstone and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, acquiring works by Pablo Picasso, Richard Prince and Georg Baselitz. More than 100 jets were booked for the fair, said Mark Booth, chief executive of the European unit of NetJets, the fleet operator owned by Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway. (International Herald Tribune -- Business Asia)
Basel Art Fair May Sell More Than $300 Million Jun 15, 2006
June 13 (Bloomberg) -- The Swiss city of Basel becomes an art-shoppers' mall today, stocked with works by Pablo Picasso, Georg Baselitz and Damien Hirst. Collectors will spend more than $300 million through June 18, said Sam Keller, Art Basel's director. (Yahoo News -- Art and Museums)
World records set at art auction Feb 10, 2006
Works by Eduado Chillida, Frank Auerbach, and Georg Baselitz were among the pieces that set new records. Paintings by Lucian Freud and Francis Bacon were also auctioned at the sale in London. (BBC News -- Entertainment)
Christie's art sale sets ten new world records Feb 9, 2006
24 million); Frank Auerbach (433,600); Georg Baselitz (1. 24 million); Michael Andrews (176,000); Franz Ackermann (299,200); Mattias Weischer (220,800); Michael Borremans (131,200); Yves Klein (1,016,000); Sigmar Polke (568,000); and Eberhard Havekost (131,200). (Scotsman.com)
