Born 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Saxony, Georg Baselitz lives and works outside Munich, Germany, and Imperia, Italy. He is represented by Gagosian in London and Thadeaus Ropac in Paris and Salzburg. He has had major retrospectives at galleries including the Whitechapel Gallery, London, the Pompidou Centre, Paris and the Guggenheim Museum, New York.