Guided group tour GEORG BASELITZ
Meeting place: Lobby, at least 10 minutes before
Language: Norwegian / English (please contact us if you want the tour in English)
Duration: 45 min, calculate 1 hour including transfer. After completing the tour, you can move around freely in all exhibitions.
Group size: Up to 10, 15 or 20 persons. Groups of more than 20 must be booked into two different time slots.
Group tours must be booked at least 7 days in advance.
Tour prices:
Up to10 people – NOK 3500
Up to15 people – NOK 4250
Up to 20 people – NOK 5000
Prices include entrance to all exhibitions.
Members get 10 % off.
Baselitz’s subjects include the human figure in many different forms, haunting landscapes from his childhood, fragments of national symbolism, and in more recent years, his own ageing process. In 1969 he began painting subjects upside down as a way of emphasising the abstract, purely painterly qualities in his figurative images. A central theme of this exhibition is Baselitz’s lifelong fascination with the art of Edvard Munch. In a number of images, Baselitz makes various references to Munch’s work, and credits him as a key influence in the development of modern German art. Despite the heaviness of his subject matter, Baselitz approaches Munch and other works from art history with a playful spirit.
Baselitz was born in 1938 in Hitler’s Germany, which was already on the path to the Second World War that left Europe in ruins. The experience of being born into a ‘destroyed order’ has remained a central theme of Baselitz’s art, from the beginning of his career in the early 1960s onwards. With the growing international interest in German art in the 1980s, Baselitz became one of the biggest names on the global contemporary art scene. He is known for the artistic power of his images, as well as his provocative statements on art, gender and politics.
Picture: Georg Baselitz, Nachtessen in Dresden, 1983, Olje på lerret, © Georg Bazelitz 2024, Foto: Kunsthaus Zürich
