Georg Baselitz: The Heroes

Exhibition at the Städel Museum, Frankfurt, 30 June - 23 October 2016

Georg Baselitz (1938-) spent the formative years of his painting career in West Germany, where an early impetus behind his work was the question of the country's still-troubled national identity and the discontinuity of the self and society. Between 1965 and 1966, Baselitz created the monumental series Heroes and New Types series.

This exhibition catalogue reproduces the Heroes series in full-color with close readings of the paintings with regard to their artistic style and historical context.It collects the artist's earliest statements on the theme of growing up against the fractured landscape of postwar Germany, a theme that has continued to be developed and refined throughout the artist's body of work.