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George Baselitz, German Neo-Expressionist Painter, Dies at 88

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By William Grimes Verified
| The New York Times Verified
Georg Baselitz, a German painter in the vanguard of the Neo-Expressionist movement that took the art world by storm in the 1980s, has died at 88. Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented him, announced the death in a news release, but provided no other details. Mr. Baselitz, along with German contemporaries like A.R. Penck and Anselm Kiefer, mounted a frontal attack on Minimalism and Conceptualism, the dominant “cool” styles of the 1970s.
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Georg Baselitz, German Neo-Expressionist Painter, Dies at 88

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By William Grimes Verified
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Georg Baselitz, a German painter in the vanguard of the neo-Expressionist movement that took the art world by storm in the 1980s, has died at 88. Thaddaeus Ropac, one of the galleries that represented him, announced the death in a news release, but provided no other details. Baselitz, along with German contemporaries like A.R. Penck and Anselm Kiefer, mounted a frontal attack on Minimalism and Conceptualism, the dominant "cool" styles of the 1970s.
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Calvin Tomkins, Who Profiled Giants of Modern Art, Dies at 100

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By William Grimes Verified
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Calvin Tomkins, whose elegant and searching profiles for The New Yorker created an enduring portrait gallery of the prime movers in modern art from the 1960s onward, died on Friday. He was 100. David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker, announced the death on the magazine’s website. He did not say where Mr. Tomkins died.
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