Georg Baselitz obituary (opens in new tab)

Painter and sculptor whose raw, expressive works reflected on postwar Germany and courted controversy over his 60-year careerIn November 1961, the residents of West Berlin woke to find their city dotted with posters. These, in scabrous drawings and words, attacked contemporary German art as a thing of “anthropomorphic, pot-bellied putty-rocks”. Baffled Berliners who made it to the end of the text found an advertisement for an exhibition of work by the posters’ twin authors. One was a painter ...