GEORG BASELITZ @ Munch Museum, Oslo

Featuring over 80 paintings, drawings and sculptures, ranging from the early 1960s to recent works, Feet First is the most extensive exhibition of Baselitz’s work ever mounted in Norway.  

Baselitz’s subjects include the human figure in many different forms, haunting landscapes from his childhood, fragments of national symbolism, and in more recent years, his own ageing process. In 1969 he began painting subjects upside down as a way of emphasising the abstract, purely painterly qualities in his figurative images.

A central theme of this exhibition is Baselitz’s lifelong fascination with the art of Edvard Munch. In a number of images, Baselitz makes various references to Munch’s work, and credits him as a key influence in the development of modern German art. Despite the heaviness of his subject matter, Baselitz approaches Munch and other works from art history with a playful spirit.