Georg Baselitz is a German artist known for his Neo-Expressionist paintings rendered with distinctive brushwork and often exhibited upside down. His practice, which includes sculpture and printmaking, explores what it means to be a German artist in the postwar era, and is characterized by bold colors, forceful brushstrokes, and the incorporation of folkloric or archetypal subject matter. “I begin with an idea, but as I work, the picture takes over,” he said of his process. “Then there is the struggle between the idea I preconceived and the picture that fights for its own life.” Born Hans-Georg Kern on January 23, 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Germany, Baselitz renamed himself after his hometown in 1961. He counts Willem de...