Artist Monograph

Georg Baselitz, German

German, born 1938

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Medium Breakdown

Medium Works at MoMA Share
Printmaking 60 42.9%
Etching 31 22.1%
Other Media 18 12.9%
Woodcut 13 9.3%
Drawing 9 6.4%
Watercolor 5 3.6%
Oil Painting 3 2.1%
Gouache 1 0.7%

Georg Baselitz’s MoMA holdings concentrate in Printmaking (14,221 total works in this medium by 1,416 artists), with secondary engagement in Etching, Other Media, Woodcut, Drawing, Watercolor, Oil Painting, Gouache.

Department Distribution

MoMA DepartmentWorksShare
Drawings & Prints13797.9%
Painting & Sculpture32.1%

Production by Decade

1
1950s
17
1960s
29
1970s
54
1980s
36
1990s
3
2000s

Classification Types

  • Illustrated Book — 70
  • Print — 52
  • Drawing — 14
  • Painting — 3
  • Periodical — 1

Acquisition Timeline

Year acquiredWorks
19741
19793
198223
19832
19844
19871
19883
19911
199242
199326
19942
19957
19972
19983
19993
20011
20021
20056
20068
20251

German Contemporaries

  1. 835 Lilly Reich
  2. 750 August Sander
  3. 270 Thomas Schütte
  4. 260 Martin Kippenberger
  5. 224 Michael Schmidt