I don't like things that can be reproduced. Wood isn't important in itself but rather in the fact that objects made in it are unique, simple, unpretentious.

“Baselitz. ISBN 978-3-86678-131-3. In 1970 at the Kunstmuseum Basel Dieter Koepplin staged the first retrospective of drawings and graphic works by Baselitz.

Baselitz's style is interpreted by the Northern American[clarification needed] as Neo-Expressionist but from a European perspective it is more seen as postmodern. Georg Baselitz (born 23 January 1938) is a German painter who studied in the former East Germany before moving to what was then the country of West Germany. [citation needed]
His career was boosted in the 1960s after police took action against one of his paintings (Die große Nacht im Eimer) because of its provocative offending sexual nature.