Georg Baselitz, born in 1938 near Dresden as Hans-Georg Bruno Kern, is one of the most famous contemporary German artists.

His search for “unspoiled art” and for ways to destroy the pictorial motif without abandoning it led him to a 180-degree rotation of his motifs in the late 1960s. By this “turning upside down” he achieved the greatest possible autonomy of form and colour. In addition to painting, Baselitz also worked intensively on woodcuts, large-format linocuts and, from around 1980, on sculpture. Since the mid-2000s he has been creating the so-called remix pictures. In these, the artist reworked many of his previous works by painting them over to create “invisible images”.

The Laing Gallery is showing works from Baselitz’s graphic oeuvre, whereby the black and white linocuts in small editions with a room-filling format are rare.