Georg Baselitz: Akademie Rousseau: Exhibition Catalogue Cfa Contemporary Fine Arts Berlin - Softcover

Gohr, Siegfried; Baselitz, Georg; Hackert, Nicole

Softcover

ISBN 10: 3864423163 ISBN 13: 9783864423161

Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH, 2020

Synopsis

"There is a remarkable painting in the Picasso room at Kunstmuseum in Basel: a full-length portrait of Guillaume Apollinaire with his muse, Marie Laurencin. It was Henri Rousseau who ­painted this wonderful picture. Only I had remembered it as a self-portrait of Rousseau with ­Madame Rousseau. Marie Laurencin was Apollinaire's muse, and Clémence Rousseau was Rousseau's muse. As it happens, Franz Marc painted a portrait of Rousseau for Der Blaue Reiter, and Picasso also had a self-portrait by Henri. There's a quite intimate photograph, taken by André Gomés, of Picasso holding Rousseau's self-portrait in his right hand and the portrait of Rousseau's wife in his left hand. Picasso, that constructor of novel objects and ­audacious paintings, loved Rousseau, the painter of things in rigidified grace. Even Rousseau's gaze in his self-portrait is stiff, directed at his own work, in which objects that we ourselves are familiar with look different--Gothic, Byzantine, somehow not the way we are used to seeing them. (...)" --Georg Baselitz

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About the Author

Nicole Hackert and Bruno Brunnet (the founder of the gallery in 1992) are a permanent part of the international gallery world with CFA situated now at Grolmanstraße in Berlin/Charlottenburg. Siegfried Gohr, born in 1949, is a German art historian, curator, and freelance publicist. Georg Baselitz, born as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz in 1938, is one of the most internationally renowned German artists of the post-war period.

Edition details

• Publisher: Snoeck Verlagsgesellschaft mbH
• Publication date: 2020
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3864423163
• ISBN 13: 9783864423161
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 64
• Editor: Brunnet Bruno