In 1938, the German artist Georg Baselitz was born in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony. A time that made growing up during the war and thus in »a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people and a destroyed society« unavoidable. This is how Baselitz himself describes the conditions at that time. He thus makes it easy to understand that, in retrospect, it must always have been his concern to question everything with his life's work and not to create a new order, but on the contrary to detach himself completely from the concept of order. This development, as well as the resulting complexity of being an artist in post-war Germany, will be explored by the Centre Pompidou with Georg Baselitz – The Retrospective starting on October 20, 2021.
In chronological order, visitors can relive Baselitz's most striking creative phases and view works from a total of six decades. On display are, for example, the Pandemonium manifesto from the early 1960s, the Heroes series, the Fractured Compositions or his Inverted Motives from 1969 – works that are extremely characteristic and underscore how difficult Baselitz is to classify: he moves between figuration, abstraction, and a conceptual approach; wanted to paint images that do not yet exist and excavate things that were once rejected. Those interested can visit the exciting retrospective until March 7 2022– and be surprised by Baselitz's ever new variations from traditional painting techniques, motifs and aesthetic forms. 
