Georg Baselitz

Volkstanz - Marode [Folkdance - Tired]

About this artwork

This is one of a series of paintings that Baselitz painted in the first half of 1989, with the generic title of ‘Streubilder’ (or ‘Scatter Paintings’) or ‘Ciao America’. ‘Scatter Paintings’ describes the lack of a compositional focus in works like ‘Volkstanz - Marode’. Its ‘pattern’ of tiles and heads is reminiscent of the all-over quality of American Abstract Expressionism, but the primitivist style and reference to folkdance are unapologetically European. Baselitz was at the forefront of European Neo-Expressionist painting from the 1960s onwards, which enjoyed massive popularity in the 1980s, and caused some to see European art eclipsing American art at the time. Ciao America!

Updated before 2020

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  • artist:
    Georg Baselitz (born 1938) German
  • title:
    Volkstanz - Marode [Folkdance - Tired]
  • date created:
    1989
  • materials:
    Oil paint on canvas
  • measurements:
    250.40 x 251.00 x 5.80 cm; Framed: 256.10 x 255.30 x 9.00 cm
  • object type:
  • credit line:
    ARTIST ROOMS National Galleries of Scotland and Tate. Acquired jointly through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and Art Fund, 2008
  • accession number:
    AR00031
  • gallery:
  • subject:
  • artwork photographed by:
    Antonia Reeve
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Georg Baselitz

Georg Baselitz