Masters of Their Craft
Artists
Discover the visionaries who shaped the course of art history.
31,194 artists in the collection
Gentry, Bruce
American
American, active c. 1935
Geoffrey Heath Wedgwood
Geoffrey Swindell
Geoffrey Todd Smith
Geoffrey Tory
Geoff Winningham
Geophrey T. Wilber
Georg Achen
Georg Baselitz
Georg Baselitz (born Hans-Georg Bruno Kern; 23 January 1938 – 30 April 2026) was a German-Austrian painter, sculptor and graphic artist. In the 1960s he became well known for his figurative, expressive paintings. In 1969 he began painting his subjects upside down in an effort to overcome the representational, content-driven character of his earlier work and stress the artifice of painting, which would become a defining feature of his later work. Drawing from myriad influences, including Socialist Realism, Mannerism, and African sculpture, he developed his own, distinct artistic language. Baselitz was born in Deutschbaselitz, Upper Lusatia, Germany. He grew up in the desolation and ruin of post-World War II East Germany, circumstances which informed his future work. After being rejected by East German artistic authorities for his experimental style, Baselitz moved to West Berlin in the early 1960s, where his paintings caused public scandal for their obscenity. This initial controversy jump-started his career in the west, which expanded from painting to printmaking, sculpture, and scenic design. Baselitz's oeuvre is defined by his rejection of order and challenging of conventional forms...
Georg Baselitz
Georg Christoph Eimmart, the Younger
Georg Christoph Lindemann
German