Marking the opening of the exhibition Georg Baselitz - Feet First, Professor Christian Weikop talks with curator Jon-Ove Steihaug about Baselitz's art and his extensive dialogue with other artworks and art history.

List of works discussed in the episode:

Georg Baselitz, Head (Munch), 1960

Georg Baselitz, Portrait of F. v. Rayski III, 1960

Georg Baselitz, Portrait Rayski, 1960

Georg Baselitz, Big Night Down the Drain, 1963

Georg Baselitz, The New Type, 1966

Edvard Munch, Blossom of Pain,1898

Georg Baselitz, Meissen Woodsmen, 1969

Georg Baselitz, The Wood on its Head,1969

Georg Baselitz, Triangle Between Arm and Torso, 1973

Edvard Munch, Bath, 1907

Georg Baselitz, Finger Painting – Female Nude, 1972

Georg Baselitz, Elke I, 1976

Georg Baselitz, Head in the Sun, 1982 

Edvard Munch, Self-Portrait by the Window, ca 1940 

Georg Baselitz, Painter with Mitten, 1982 

Edvard Munch, The Night wanderer, 1923-24

Georg Baselitz, Greetings from Oslo, 1986

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Adam and Eve, 1921

Georg Baselitz, Supper in Dresden, 1983

Emil Nolde, The Last Supper, 1909

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, A Group of Artists, 1925-26

Georg Baselitz, The Bridge Ghost’s Supper, 2006

Georg Baselitz, Ekely, 2005

Edvard Munch, Edvard Munch at Ekely, 1943 (photography)

Georg Baselitz, Ancestors at Mrs Elke’s Birthday, 2012

Otto Dix, The Artist’s Parents, 1924

Georg Baselitz, The Painter in His Bed etc., 2023

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