The busy artist Georg Baselitz has reconsidered the conventions of various media, primarily painting and sculpture, during a career lasting approximately sixty years. Born in 1938, he was expelled from the art academy in East Berlin in 1956 for "socio-political immaturity" and relocated to the western side of the city. By the late 1950s, he had rejected dominant trends, and his unique achievement was to reintroduce the human form into art, despite it being tarnished by Nazism and Communism. By focusing on "pariah" artists, such as psychiatric patients, and invoking a paradigm of existential art and literature from Paris, he proposes an alternative European tradition that does not eliminate the human subject. Noting movements in German painting, such as Expressionism, and artists like Munch, he also restored art that was condemned by Hitler as "degenerate." The book traces the evolution of Baselitz's unique style from his early works to the most recent creations of his eighth decade. The excellent construction of the chronological narrative by Kalvokoresis helps us evaluate Baselitz's work based on the upheavals of his life - historical calamities that ran in parallel with an extraordinary career. With 406 color illustrations.