Cowboys! Eagles! Death! Georg Baselitz’s prints tell a shocking life story

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Georg Baselitz’s artworks turn the world on its head, quite literally. Throughout his career, the iconic German painter has depicted his pet subjects – eagles, deer, downtrodden ‘heroes’, and Elke, his wife and lifelong muse – upside down on the canvas. What was once dismissed as a gimmick has, over the course of six decades, solidified into something much more, complicating the symbols that resurface again and again from the artist’s personal and politicalhellip;read more raquo;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;nbsp;View Gallery (16 images)nbsp;