Baselitz and His Generation

For Hai-Dang Phan I have no doubt where they will go. They walk the one life offered from the many chosen. — Robert Lowell They are all also, it should be remembered, West German artists, with the partial exception of Penck, and are all male. — John-Paul Stonard He was born in the countryside / the provinces / the blameless sticks in (false) Waltersdorf (recte) Dresden in what is now Czechoslovakia / the Czech Republic (laughs) / Czechia, if it ever catches on what’s it to you. Stripped of his East German citizenship, he fled on foot with a handful of pop music cassettes in a pantechnicon mit Kind und Kegel