Georg Baselitz, an acclaimed and award-winning neo-expressionist German artist with a penchant for provocation, has died. He had a career retrospective at LACMA in 1995.

Georg Baselitz, a preeminent painter of postwar Germany and an engine of the 1980s Neo-Expressionist movement that rebuked Minimalism, and who would later come under fire for his comments about women ...

Along with contemporaries like Anselm Kiefer, he mounted a frontal attack on Minimalism and Conceptualism, the dominant “cool” styles of the 1970s.