Georg Baselitz Geschichte

On the occasion of Georg Baselitz’s 88th birthday, Cristea Roberts Gallery presents Geschichte, the artist’s fourth solo exhibition with the gallery.
Georg Baselitz: Geschichte presents a new body of work that focuses on one of Baselitz’s most enduring and provocative motifs – the eagle or Adler. The exhibition brings together over twenty etchings and aquatints that depict the inverted eagle alongside other animals, such as the hare and the deer, as well as the artist’s most recurrent muse, his wife Elke.

The title of the exhibition, Geschichte, comes from the German word for history or tale. With this dual meaning in mind, Baselitz establishes a dialogue between two of his most famous motifs: the eagle and Elke, bringing them together in a new narrative (or Geschichte), whilst acknowledging the historical importance of both themes in his oeuvre.

Baselitz’s graphic work often interrogates both personal and political histories and is constantly engaged in a disruptive process of orienting and disorienting, challenging what defines traditional, symbolic or subversive picture-making.