The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of March 29, 2024
View out the Window
1982
Location: not on view
Did You Know?
Georg Baselitz's first inverted figures included abstract portraits of his wife, Elke, and his friends in the German art world.Description
In 1969 Georg Baselitz challenged painting traditions through a foundational reversal: he began rendering the human figure upside down. This departure established a new pictorial convention for the artist that he developed in subsequent years. The work's expressive brushwork and bright, raw colors endow the disorienting image with strong emotional energy, evocative of inner turmoil.- Cleveland Museum of Art, “Major Contemporary German Painting Acquired by CMA,” June 9, 1999, Cleveland Museum of Art Archives. archive.orgHinson, Tom E., "Reality Upended", Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art Members Magazine. Vol. 40 no. 03, March 2000 Mentioned & reproduced: p. 8-9 archive.org
- Contemporary Gallery Reinstallation 2021. The Cleveland Museum of Art (organizer).
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Source URL:
https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.86