The Cleveland Museum of Art

Collection Online as of March 29, 2024

View out the Window

View out the Window

1982
(German, 1938-)
Overall: 249.9 x 199.4 cm (98 3/8 x 78 1/2 in.)
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.org
    Hinson, 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).
  • {{cite web|title=View out the Window|url=false|author=Georg Baselitz|year=1982|access-date=29 March 2024|publisher=Cleveland Museum of Art}}

Source URL:

https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1999.86