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| Georg Baselitz, "Big Night Down the Drain" (1962). Click here for image URL |
A young boy taking a pee. A rather familiar and weird young boy taking a pee. Hitler. Shall I say more? Georg Baselitz creates a humorously perfect example of an anti-hero in Hitler's mind. The minute immature boy appears to have no control of the situation. A night down the drain is nothing more, nothing less than a ruined night. All that he done, he believed it was for a greater heroic purpose until he was left with nothing, no power over what he made. All that was left was a tiny man with no integrity. Hitler was that man.
The artist was born in the small country-side town of Baselitz, Germany during the Second World War, and though not recalling the proper war, he has seen the suffering of the homeless people who surrounded him. Georg Baselitz uses the collective memory of Germany's event to produce artworks with darkly humoured motifs.
