
Georg BaselitzGerman, 1938–2026May one see it?
Braunschweig, Germany
The owner is known. Whether it is on view today, the museum does not say, and we were not trained to guess.
1963
A scandal at his first solo show
Baselitz's first solo exhibition in West Berlin, at Galerie Werner & Katz, caused a public scandal: two days after the opening the public prosecutor seized two paintings, “The Big Night Down the Drain” and “The Naked Man”, as obscene; the court case did not end until October 1965.
1965
A Villa Romana scholarship in Florence
In 1965 Baselitz won a six-month scholarship to the Villa Romana in Florence, where he studied Mannerist graphics and produced the “Tierstück” (“Animal Piece”) pictures.
1965 · Award
Villa Romana Prize