Art Basel Qatar 2026
Art Basel Qatar
3 – 7 February 2026
White Cube is pleased to participate in the inaugural edition of Art Basel Qatar with a solo presentation of work by Georg Baselitz (b. 1938, Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany).
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Georg Baselitz
Die Hand von Wols, 2019
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Since the early days of his career, Georg Baselitz has painted ‘monstrous’ hands and feet. Beginning with his acclaimed ‘Heroes’ series of paintings of the mid-1960s, which show battered figures with over- or undersize extremities, in recent years, the artist appears to have reduced these full figures to a single hand.
Georg Baselitz
Fontanas Hand, 2019
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This series of seven bronze bas-relief hands was conceived by Baselitz in 2019 and marked the artist’s return to sculpture after a six-year hiatus. Working alone at a table in the studio, the sculptures are first modelled in Plasticine, for as Baselitz stated: ‘I want to hold things in my hand’. Once scaled-up, they are fire-gilded, a traditional method of applying gold which, for the artist, is far preferable to a painted surface. As the British art historian and critic Jonathan Jones describes it: ‘All these hands mirror the hand that made them. We are made intensely aware of the hand of the artist, still working as it ages, and full of the time of his life.’
Georg Baselitz
Mansalva - unbehindert, 2019
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Alongside these reliefs, Baselitz made a series of paintings in which striking images of hands emerge out of dark backgrounds. As in all his paintings, Baselitz is uninterested in conventional representation, working against his own dexterity to produce something that exists in a realm between abstraction and figuration.
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Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz was born Hans-Georg Kern in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, an area that later became the German Democratic Republic, or DDR. In 1957, after his second term studying painting at the Academy of Fine and Applied Arts in East Berlin, he was sent down for ‘political immaturity’. Later that year, he moved to West Berlin’s Academy of Art, completing his studies there in 1962. It was during this period that he adopted the surname Baselitz, after his birthplace. He lives and works near Salzburg, Austria; at lake Ammersee, Germany; and Imperia, Italy.
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Toby Kamps, Director of External Projects at White Cube, discusses Georg Baselitz's exhibition 'Darkness Goldness' at White Cube Mason's Yard in 2020.
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