Dieter Koepplin Libros

This exhibition catalog compiles paintings, sculptures, and drawings by Georg Baselitz (b. 1938) during the various phases of his career as an artist. The exhibition opens with important works created during the early 1980s. In 2005, Baselitz revisited his earlier works consisting of cycles of painted visual memories based on old family photographs and his own drawings as a child, and began working on new and different versions of the artworks that he produced several decades ago. He created what have been called remix paintings as well as entire series of ink drawings that feature the heads of Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff, and Erich Heckel. Baselitz returned to the theme of family again for several of his later paintings, including one painting of a couple that represents a direct reference to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and his life partner Erna Schilling. Later he used negative images to create double portraits of Edvard Munch, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Karl Schmidt-Rottluff and Erich Heckel, which in turn serve to refer back to his friends of the artists’ community »Brücke.« This catalog draws on numerous examples to illustrate the multifaceted artistic aspects of the relationship between Baselitz and Kirchner.

„Ein kleines Buch in kleiner Schrift mit Originalzeichnungen“ führt das Gesamtverzeichnis der Auflagenobjekte und Multiples von Joseph Beuys an. Die Zeichnungen begleiten eine 1965 erschienene Neuauflage des 1902 erstmals veröffentlichten Buches Von Tod zu Tod und andere kleine Geschichten des österreichischen Dichters Richard Schaukal (1874–1942). Dieter Koepplin, Beuys-Spezialist, hat den Versuch unternommen, erstmals alle in der 15 Exemplare umfassenden Gesamtauflage enthaltenen 19 Zeichnungen zusammenzutragen. In seinem einleitenden Text interpretiert er diese Werke vor dem Hintergrund der Texte, die sie angeregt haben. Entstanden ist eine fesselnde Studie zur literarischen Doppelnatur der Zeichnungen, die im Beuys’schen Gesamtwerk ohne Vergleich sind und die hier erstmals wieder der Öffentlichkeit zugänglich gemacht werden.