Georg Baselitz : Akademie Rousseau

Baselitz, Georg; Gohr, Siegfried

ISBN 10: 3864423163 / ISBN 13: 9783864423161

Published by Snoeck Publishing Company, 2021

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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

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Georg Baselitz : Akademie Rousseau
Publisher: Snoeck Publishing Company
Publication Date: 2021
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: As New