Villa Romana Prize Winners - Georg Baselitz, Franz Bucher, Kathe Kollwitz, Gregor Schneider, Max Beckmann, Ernst Barlach, William H. Gross (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 36. Chapters: Georg Baselitz, Franz Bucher, Kathe Kollwitz, Gregor Schneider, Max Beckmann, Ernst Barlach, William H. Gross, Kurt Koch, Abraham David Christian, Gerhard Marcks, Thomas Eller, Simon Dybbroe Moller, Robert Klumpen, Ludwig Meidner, Max Kurzweil, Dani Gal, Horst Antes, Alexander Laner, Georg Kolbe, Stefan Thater, Joseph Fassbender, Markus Lupertz, Kalin Lindena, Ralf Bruck, Markus Vater, Josef Henselmann, Anna Kerstin Otto, Constantin Wallhauser, Walter Stohrer, Olivier Foulon, Ulrich Hubner, Asli Sungu, Gabriela Dauerer, Clemens von Wedemeyer, Michael Buthe, Anna Moller, Ulla Irina Rossek, Andrea Faciu, Julia Schmidt, Martin Schmidt, Martin Pfeifle, Mikhail Pirgelis, Anna Heidenhain, Sebastian Dacey, Fritz Mackensen, Andrea Hanak, Otto Richard Bossert, Barbara Kussinger, Eske Schluter, Benjamin Yavuzsoy, Wolf Kahlen. Excerpt: Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany, before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American as Neo-Expressionist, but from a European perspective, it is more seen as postmodern. His career was kick-started in the 1960s after police action against one of his paintings, (Die grosse Nacht im Eimer), because of its provocative, offending sexual nature. Baselitz is one of the world's best-selling living artists. He is a professor at the Hochschule der Kunste art academy in Berlin. Baselitz was born 23 January 1938, as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz (now a part of Kamenz, Saxony), in what was later to be East Germany. His father was an elementary-school teacher and the family lived in the local schoolhouse. Baselitz first encountered art in albums of nineteenth-century pencil drawings in the school library. He also assisted nature photographer Helmut Drechsler on occasional orn..