The Guardian Australia ·general ·2 hours ago

German artist Georg Baselitz dies, leaving confrontational Nazi legacy art

German artist Georg Baselitz died recently, leaving behind a body of work confronting Nazi history through provocative imagery including a masturbating Hitler figure. Born in 1938, Baselitz experienced both Nazism and East German communism before fleeing west, channeling trauma into violent, grotesque paintings that forced postwar Germany to acknowledge its shameful.

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