Baselitz: Women don't paint very well. And now he revisits the statement years later

“Women do not paint very well,” Georg Baselitz (Kamenz, 1938) had said in 2013, and the statement was mentioned by the German weekly Der Spiegel. Two years later the same artist had told the Guardian, "The market does not lie. Although painting classes in art academies are made up of more than 90 percent women, it is a fact that very few of them succeed. It has nothing to do with education, opportunities, or male gallerists. It has to do with something else, and it is not my job to answer why that is so. This fact is not only limited to painting, but also to music."

Jonathan Jones of the Guardian interviewed him again years later on the subject to see if the artist’s opinion has changed. Apparently, Baselitz has now “revisited” his statement, because he believes he “never had a different opinion” about women in art, even though he once happened to give “a provocative answer” on the subject.

Indeed, he finds Tracey Emin “fantastic and phenomenal in her way of expressing herself and for her existentialism,” and he says he feels the same way about other great women artists who have made art history. He states, for example, that he always considered Artemisia Gentileschi to be significantly better than his father Horace.

Photo by Martin Müller

Baselitz: Women don't paint very well. And now he revisits the statement years later

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