The first comprehensive survey of Baselitz's printmaking Celebrating six decades of print
making A Life In Print is the first comprehensive book on an important part of Georg Baselitz'
artistic practice. Considered to be one of the greatest painters alive and credited to have
revived Figuration in a time when Abstraction ruled the art world the German artist started to
explore different print techniques beginning in 1964 and never stopped to see them as an
integral part of his work. While his contemporaries used new offset and screen-print techniques
to create what amounted to reproductions in often high editions Baselitz rejected the
Zeitgeist and explored century old techniques like dry point etchings aquatinta wood and
linocuts while tirelessly pushing his own artistic limits. The book brings together more
than 245 prints and introduces the reader to all major themes and motives of Baselitz career
from the so-called Heroes of the mid-60ies to his iconic images of Eagles to the manyfold
portraits of his wife Elke. The book forcefully makes the point that no other artist since
Picasso has done more for and in that genre than Baselitz. Edited by Cornelius Tittel in
close collaboration with the Baselitz Archive in Munich the book features an anthology of the
quintessential historic texts on Baselitz' printmaking - amongst others by himself fellow
artist Per Kirkeby and art historians like Michael Semff and Reiner Michael Mason. A new essay
by Frode Sandvik curator at Kode Museum explores the shared affinities in the print work of
Edvard Munch and Georg Baselitz.
