Georg Baselitz: A Life Sculpted in Inversion Born Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz, a small village in the Lusatia region of Germany, on January 23, 1938, Georg Baselitz’s life and artistic journey are inextricably linked to the landscape of his upbringing – a region scarred by war, displacement, and the lingering echoes of destruction. This formative experience, coupled with a profound questioning of established order, became the bedrock upon which his distinctive and profoundly influential body of work was built. Baselitz's early years were marked not by conventional artistic training b…