Georg Baselitz
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Georg Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor known for his expressive, often inverted figurative works that challenged postwar artistic conventions.
All labels observed (2)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Georg Baselitz canonical | 20 |
| George Baselitz | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T845838 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georg Baselitz Context triple: [The Phillips Collection, hasWorkBy, Georg Baselitz]
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Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a renowned German visual artist known for his diverse body of work spanning photorealistic painting, abstraction, and conceptual experimentation, making him one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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B.
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, history-laden works that confront themes of memory, mythology, and the legacy of World War II.
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Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer known for his experimental, often satirical works that blended Pop Art, abstraction, and conceptual art.
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D.
A. R. Penck
A. R. Penck was a German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his primitive, pictographic style and politically charged works created in both East and West Germany.
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E.
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Georg Baselitz Target entity description: Georg Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor known for his expressive, often inverted figurative works that challenged postwar artistic conventions.
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A.
Gerhard Richter
Gerhard Richter is a renowned German visual artist known for his diverse body of work spanning photorealistic painting, abstraction, and conceptual experimentation, making him one of the most influential painters of the late 20th and early 21st centuries.
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B.
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor known for his monumental, history-laden works that confront themes of memory, mythology, and the legacy of World War II.
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C.
Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer known for his experimental, often satirical works that blended Pop Art, abstraction, and conceptual art.
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D.
A. R. Penck
A. R. Penck was a German neo-expressionist painter, printmaker, and sculptor known for his primitive, pictographic style and politically charged works created in both East and West Germany.
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E.
Erich Heckel
Erich Heckel was a German painter and printmaker, co-founder of the influential Die Brücke group, and a key figure in the development of early 20th-century Expressionist art.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (53)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
human
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painter ⓘ sculptor ⓘ visual artist ⓘ |
| artisticTechnique | inverting motifs upside down ⓘ |
| awardReceived |
Officer of the Legion of Honour (France)
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linked to:
Officier de la Légion d'honneur
Praemium Imperiale for painting ⓘ
linked to:
Praemium Imperiale
Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen ⓘ |
| birthName | Hans-Georg Kern ⓘ |
| countryOfCitizenship | Germany ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | 1938-01-23 ⓘ |
| educatedAt |
Hochschule der Künste Berlin
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linked to:
Berlin University of the Arts
Hochschule für bildende und angewandte Kunst Berlin-Weissensee ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
painting
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sculpture ⓘ |
| genre |
figurative painting
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sculpture ⓘ |
| hasWorkExhibitedAt |
Documenta (Kassel)
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Venice Biennale ⓘ |
| hasWorkInCollection |
Centre Pompidou, Paris
ⓘ
linked to:
Centre Pompidou
Museum of Modern Art, New York ⓘ
linked to:
Museum of Modern Art
Tate, London ⓘ
linked to:
Tate Modern
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| influenced |
Neo-Expressionist painters
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linked to:
Neo-Expressionism
contemporary German painting ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Abstract Expressionism
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linked to:
Abstract expressionism
Art Brut ⓘ German Expressionism ⓘ
linked to:
Expressionism
|
| movement |
German Expressionism (influenced by)
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linked to:
Expressionism
Neo-Expressionism ⓘ |
| name | Georg Baselitz ⓘ |
| nationality | German ⓘ |
| notableFor |
challenging postwar artistic conventions
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expressive figurative art ⓘ inverted figurative paintings ⓘ |
| notableWork |
Der Wald auf dem Kopf
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Die Helden (The Heroes) series ⓘ Die große Nacht im Eimer ⓘ Fracture paintings ⓘ |
| occupation |
painter
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printmaker ⓘ sculptor ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany ⓘ |
| positionHeld |
professor at Hochschule der Künste Berlin
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professor at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Karlsruhe ⓘ |
| series |
Fracture (Frakturbilder) series
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Helden (Heroes) series ⓘ upside-down paintings ⓘ |
| styleCharacteristic |
distorted human figures
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monumental scale works ⓘ raw, gestural brushwork ⓘ |
| thematicFocus |
German postwar identity
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fragmentation of the body ⓘ trauma and memory ⓘ |
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Subject: Georg Baselitz Description of subject: Georg Baselitz is a German painter and sculptor known for his expressive, often inverted figurative works that challenged postwar artistic conventions.
Referenced by (21)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.
subject linked to:
Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany
subject linked to:
Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Germany
linked to: Georg Baselitz