The pioneering German Neo-Expressionist artist Georg Baselitz, who challenged German culture after World War II with ever-provocative works, has died. His death was confirmed by his family, via an ...

Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed German artist prominent in the neo-Expressionist movement who had a penchant for provocation and was known for painting images upside down, has died. He was 88.

Georg Baselitz, who has died at the age of 88, was one of those artists whose significance resists easy summarisation. He was labelled a Neo-Expressionist and spent much of his career quietly ...

In the 1920s, sexual imagery became even more explicit and voyeuristic, perhaps a reaction to a heightened sense of anxiety and emasculation in the wake of the lost war and the cultural shift that ...

When World War I broke out in August 1914, many Expressionists initially believed it could be the apocalyptic event that would at last overthrow the self-satisfied materialism of the nation’s monarchy ...