Adler im Fenster

1982

Not on view

This painting is marked by Baselitz’s characteristically heavy, unpolished brushwork. An androgynous figure seems to scream in terror or surprise at the yellow eagle perched on a windowsill at the lower right, from which the work takes its name ("Eagle in the Window"). Baselitz worked on this painting upside down, a practice he has maintained since 1969, in order, he has stated, to concentrate on formal structure and the painted surface, rather than content. Nevertheless, by the 1980s, the expressive power of his painting had established him as an important point of reference for an emergent group of young German Neo-Expressionist painters such as Anselm Kiefer.

Artwork Details

Title: Adler im Fenster
Artist: Georg Baselitz (German, born Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, 1938)
Date: 1982
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 98 1/2 × 98 1/2 in. (250.2 × 250.2 cm)
Classification: Paintings
Credit Line: Gift of The Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation, 2007
Object Number: 2007.163
Rights and Reproduction: © Georg Baselitz 2022
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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