Overview

• He lost the ability to walk and developed a method of painting from a rolling chair to adapt to his changing physical condition.
• Painting from a height-adjustable office stool fitted with five wheels and backed by a paint cart allows him to move independently across large canvases.
• After initially using cardboard to conceal his chair’s tracks, he now embraces the wheel marks as intentional compositional elements inspired by artists such as Yves Klein, Rauschenberg and Asger Jorn.
• Baselitz maintains a strong competitive spirit and insists he still wants to produce the best images at age 87.
• He observes that while aging can diminish some artists’ late work, others like Otto Dix, Titian and Picasso achieved notable improvements in advanced years.