"Georg Baselitz was a living thread of history and his death robs us of the truth he knew when we need it more than ever. He was one of the only two people I have spoken to for whom Nazi Germany was a living memory."
"In his art, he cut those images up, gored and eviscerated them in paintings of uniformed young enthusiasts with blood spurting from mangled limbs or entire bodies fed through some hellish grinder and roughly remade."
"Baselitz horrified a postwar West Germany that was trying to forget with obscene images of a rancid, shameful society. His 1961 painting Die groe Nacht im Eimer depicts a stunted character with flattened black Hitlerian hair."
Georg Baselitz, born in 1938, retained memories of Nazi Germany and expressed these through his provocative art. His works often depicted violent imagery, reflecting the horrors of the Holocaust and the shame of postwar German society. Baselitz's art challenged the narrative of forgetting, confronting the repressed memories of Nazi crimes. His pieces, such as 'Die groe Nacht im Eimer,' illustrated the grotesque realities of a society grappling with its past. Baselitz's unique perspective as a witness to both Nazi and East German communism informed his artistic vision.
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