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Michael Werner Gallery, London, is pleased to present Georg Baselitz: 1977–1992, an exhibition of major paintings and works on paper by one of the most important German artists of the post-war period.

Widely known for his inverted portraits, landscapes and still-lifes, Baselitz has long cultivated a subversive approach to figurative imagery. The artist’s debut exhibition in 1963 at Galerie Michael Werner in Berlin caused a scandal with its raw painterly style and disturbing content. In the following years Baselitz created the renowned Hero and Fracture paintings, and a radical change in the …