Georg Baselitz

Schlafzimmer [Bedroom]

1975

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The picture shows a man and a woman sitting – as the title states – in their bedroom. The intimacy of the scene is emphasized by the fact that the two are naked and next to each other, like Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical characters. Each of them is locked in their own world which is impenetrable to the other and they are next to each other without touching. Their separateness is emphasized by the choice of colour, which marks the difference between male and female and plays on the crossed juxtaposition of blue and red between figure and background to suggest a silent dialogue which is invisible to the conscious eye. The colours are applied in hot and cold masses around the bodies as a way of creating the light. This “rough” application of the paint is a device which Baselitz uses increasingly in the Seventies when he returns to the idea of painting subjects from photographs but in a much more liberal way, retaining the compositional structure using large brushstrokes.

The picture shows a man and a woman sitting – as the title states – in their bedroom. The intimacy of the scene is emphasized by the fact that the two are naked and next to each other, like Giorgio De Chirico’s metaphysical characters. Each of them is locked in their own world which is impenetrable to the other and they are next to each other without touching. Their separateness is emphasized by the choice of colour, which marks the difference between male and female and plays on the crossed juxtaposition of blue and red between figure and background to suggest a silent dialogue which is invisible to the conscious eye. The colours are applied in hot and cold masses around the bodies as a way of creating the light. This “rough” application of the paint is a device which Baselitz uses increasingly in the Seventies when he returns to the idea of painting subjects from photographs but in a much more liberal way, retaining the compositional structure using large brushstrokes.
 

Akt - (Nude)

1972

Akt - (Nude)

1972

Mannlicher akt (Nude Male)

1974

Akt - (Nude)

1973

Akt Elke - (Nude Elke)

1976

Deutschbaselitz 1938
Hans Georg Kern was born 23 January, 1938 in Saxony, Deutchbaselitz. His family moved to Kamenz, in 1950 where he completed his secondary school education and began learning the ...
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