Etching on paper
Tate Collection
Works with images
General Collection
Collection
<a href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/georg-baselitz-699" aria-label="More by Georg Baselitz" data-gtm-name="header_link_artist" data-gtm-destination="page--artist">Georg Baselitz</a>
Purchased 1982
actions: processes and functions
adults
antihero
architecture
birth to death
carrying / holding
destruction
emotions and human qualities
emotions, concepts and ideas
fine arts and music
formal qualities
gestural
house
instrument of torture - non specific
man
objects
paintbrush
people
residential
society
stump
tools and machinery
universal concepts
youth
paper print etching
1 January 2006 – 15 October 2006
2006-10-15
26 January 2006 – 2 April 2006
2006-04-02
2006-01-26
Fundació “la Caixa” (Madrid, Spain)
26 April 2006 – 2 July 2006
2006-07-02
2006-04-26
Whitechapel Gallery (London, UK)
http://www.whitechapel.org/
25 July 2006 – 15 October 2006
2006-10-15
2006-07-25
Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin, Ireland)
http://www.modernart.ie
2006-01-01
Inner Worlds Outside
Loan-out
Untitled
image: 310 × 245 mm
frame: 756 × 589 × 26 mm
Purchased 1982
<p><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baselitz-untitled-p07738" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07738</span></a> <b>Untitled</b> 1965
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<br/>Etching with open bite 12 1/4 × 9 5/8 (310 × 245) on Richard de Bas paper 26 3/8 × 19 7/8 (670 × 499), printed and published by the artist
<br/>Inscribed ‘Baselitz 65’ b.r. and ‘13/20’
<br/>Purchased from Maximilian Verlag, Sabine Knust, Munich (Grant-in-Aid) 1982
<br/><i>Repr:</i> Fred Jahn, <i>Baselitz Peintre-Graveur</i>, 1, Bern-Berlin, 1983, p.39; Siegfried Gohr, <i>Georg Baselitz-Druckgraphik 1963–83</i>, Munich, 1984, p.71
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<br/>Unless otherwise stated all statements attributed to the artist in this and the following entries have been made in letters from Herr Detlev Gretenkort of 27 June and 10 August 1984 reporting answers by the artist to questions posed by the compiler. Herr Gretenkort is the artist's secretary.
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<br/><a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baselitz-rebel-p07737" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>P07737</span></a> and <span>P07738</span> are <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/e/etching" title="Glossary definition for 'Etching'"><span>etchings</span></a> on the theme of the ‘neuer Typ’, a subject Baselitz explored in a variety of <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/medium" title="Glossary definition for 'Medium'"><span>media</span></a> between 1965 and 1966. <span>P07737</span> is closely related to a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/d/drawing" title="Glossary definition for 'Drawing'"><span>drawing</span></a> entitled ‘Hero’ (repr. Georg Baselitz Zeichnungen 1958–83, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Basel, March–May 1984, pl.64) and to a <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/painting" title="Glossary definition for 'Painting'"><span>painting</span></a> of the same name as <span>P07737</span> also in the collection (<a class="acno-pop" data-gtm-destination="page--artwork" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artworks/baselitz-rebel-t03442" title="View the details of this artwork"><span>T03442</span></a>, see entry in this catalogue). The ‘neuer Typ’ (new man) represents a regenerated, restructured youth generally clad in battledress, looking with an air of ecstasy towards the future. The suggestion of the crucifixion and of a scarred <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/l/landscape" title="Glossary definition for 'Landscape'"><span>landscape</span></a> is typical of these works and indicate a legacy of Baselitz's earlier ‘Pandemonium’ pictures, which have been linked, in terms of source imagery, to the art of the insane and, in other respects, to the work of European artists of the fifties such as Fautrier and Wols. The two ‘Pandemonium’ manifestos which Baselitz issued in 1961 and 1962 express the frustration of working in Germany at a time of cultural impoverishment. The <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/t/tone" title="Glossary definition for 'Tone'"><span>tone</span></a> of the manifestos is often violent, sexual, and shocking and represents rebelliousness and anger. The ‘Rebel’ works emerged some three years later and represent a less aggressive approach to revolution. Richard Calvocoressi points out that
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<p>The emergence of a mythic <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/f/figurative-art" title="Glossary definition for 'Figurative'"><span>figuration</span></a> in Baselitz's paintings was not a political act, although it is possible to recognise in the striding, monumental figure of the neuer Typ elements of both Fascist and <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/s/socialist-realism" title="Glossary definition for 'Socialist Realism'"><span>Socialist Realist</span></a> heroic <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/i/iconography" title="Glossary definition for 'Iconography'"><span>iconography</span></a>. However, the young pioneer in baggy battledress surrounded by attributes ... is, as Gunter Gercken has pointed out, ‘a peaceful fighter, a green hero, a partisan against war, armed not with a machine gun but with a paintbrush and palette’ (Georg Baselitz Paintings 1960–83, exhibition catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, September–October 1983, p.13).</p>
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<p>Baselitz regards the rebel as an antihero who holds in his left hand a bag with a paintbrush and in his right hand ‘an instrument of torture, made of a stone to squeeze the fingers’. The objects such as the fallen flag indicate ‘a negative pathetic’ and are signs of social disintegration. In <span>P07738</span>, according to Baselitz, the figure is portrayed supporting a house in his right hand in order to ‘protect the house against destruction’. The wing-like configuration behind the figure represents a tree stump. Although the artist states that there is no specific source for the rebel works they may be closely related to <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/p/print" title="Glossary definition for 'Print'"><span>prints</span></a> by northern <a class="glossarylinktopopup" data-gtm-destination="article-page" data-gtm-name="body_text_link" href="http://www.tate.org.uk/learn/online-resources/glossary/m/mannerist" title="Glossary definition for 'Mannerist'"><span>Mannerist</span></a> artists which he admires, in particular the work of Goltzius and Flotner. One work by Flotner (repr. Georg Baselitz: Ein neuer Typ. Bilder 1965/66, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Neuendorf, Hamburg, December 1973–January 1974, n.p.) seems especially close.</p>
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<br/>This entry has been approved by the artist.
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<br/><b>Published in:</b>
<br/><i>The Tate Gallery 1982-84: Illustrated Catalogue of Acquisitions</i>, London 1986
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Catalogue entry
2004-10-13T00:00:00
catalogue-entry
CATALOGUE_ENTRY
actions: processes and functions adults antihero architecture birth to death carrying / holding destruction emotions and human qualities emotions, concepts and ideas fine arts and music formal qualities gestural house instrument of torture - non specific man objects paintbrush people residential society stump tools and machinery universal concepts youth