Georg Baselitz
Blue-chip#55
Egon Investment Scores
Liquidity
8/10
How easily works can be bought and sold at auction
Institutional
10/10
Museum collections, biennials, and institutional recognition
Momentum
8/10
Recent price trends, gallery moves, and market buzz
Discovery
1/10
Undervaluation opportunity relative to peer artists
Risk
1/10
Investment risk factors — higher means more volatile
Market Position
- Pricing
- Prints
- €200 - €8,000
- Drawings
- €8,100 - €1,000,000
- Paintings
- €13,700 - €7,400,000
- Sculptures
- €1,600 - €1,500,000
- Liquidity
- Active secondary market with regular auction appearances at major houses
- Collector Base
- International collectors, strong European base, institutional acquisitions
- Auction History
- Previous Record
- $9.1 million for 'Mit Roter Fahne (With Red Flag)' (1965) at Sotheby's London, March 2017
- Market Trajectory
- Strong institutional and collector demand; consistent performance at major auctions; significant presence in German contemporary art market surge
- Recent Sales 2024 2025
- Art Basel 2025
- Work
- Oh ho, siamo ritornati, am deutschen Wesen, Weltgenesungsbild (2023)
- Price
- €2.2 million ($2.5 million)
- Gallery
- White Cube
- Work
- Drei Hunde aufwärts (1968)
- Price
- €3 million ($3.45 million)
- Gallery
- Thaddaeus Ropac
- Upcoming Sotheby's
- Fingermalerei - Akt estimated $2-3 million (May 2025)
Institutional Presence
- Exhibitions
- Upcoming Exhibitions
- Georg Baselitz: Feet First, Munchmuseet, Oslo (through May 2025)Bourse de Commerce - Pinault Collection, Paris (2025)
- Museum Collections
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New YorkArt Institute of ChicagoSmithsonian InstitutionCleveland Museum of ArtVictoria & Albert Museum, LondonCentre Georges Pompidou, ParisMuseum of Modern Art, New YorkTate Modern, LondonSolomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New YorkMuseum Ludwig, CologneSan Francisco Museum of Modern ArtBerlinische GaleriePinault Collection, Venice
- Awards and Recognition
- Japan Art Association Praemium Imperiale (2004)Villa Romana Prize (1965)Goslarer Kaiserring (1986)Membership French Académie des Beaux-Arts (2019)
Career & Biography
- Career
- 1957
- Expelled from East Berlin academy for 'sociopolitical immaturity'
- 1961
- Adopted name Georg Baselitz after hometown
- 1963
- First solo exhibition in Berlin, two works confiscated by authorities
- 1965
- Awarded Villa Romana scholarship, Florence
- 1969
- Began painting subjects upside down
- 1980
- Represented Germany at Venice Biennale
- 2004
- Received Japan Art Association's Praemium Imperiale prize
- 2018
- 80th birthday retrospective at Hirshhorn Museum
- Identity
- Current Location
- Lives and works near Salzburg, Austria; Lake Ammersee, Germany; and Imperia, Italy
- Artistic Context
- Pioneer of German Neo-Expressionism; developed signature upside-down paintings to emphasize form over content and stress the artifice of painting; rejection of both abstract art and socialist realism
Artistic Profile
- Style
- Upside-down paintings (since 1969), bold expressionistic brushwork, figurative subjects rendered with raw emotional intensity
- Influences
- German Expressionism, Edvard Munch, Jackson Pollock, Philip Guston, Willem de Kooning, Art Brut
- Themes and Subjects
- Post-war German identity, destruction and reconstruction, human figure, landscape, aging and mortality
- Movements and Periods
- Techniques and Mediums
- Mediums
- Oil painting, sculpture (wood, bronze), printmaking (etchings, woodcuts), drawings
Critical Reception
- Critical Reception
- Academic Recognition
- Taught at art academies in Karlsruhe and Berlin; influenced generations of artists
- Critical Positioning
- Recognized as pioneering figure in German Neo-Expressionism and post-war European art
- Controversial Aspects
- Known for controversial statements about women artists, but critical consensus on artistic importance remains strong
- Publications and Media
- Major Publications
- Extensive Artforum coverage including major reviews by Stuart Morgan (1983), Lisa Liebmann (1982)Burlington Magazine (2018)Deutsche Welle coverageNew Yorker reviewsArtnet analysis
Gallery & Representation
- Fair Presence
- Regular presence at Art Basel, Frieze, and major international fairs
- Representation
- Market Positioning
- Tier 1 gallery representation across major art market centers
- Recent Gallery Activity
- Active exhibition program with major solo shows at White Cube (2024), Thaddaeus Ropac (2024)
- Secondary Representation
- Skarstedt Gallery, New YorkMichael Werner GalleryContemporary Fine Arts, BerlinCristea Roberts Gallery
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