Baselitz’s Hero paintings come to Frankfurt

The 27-year-old Georg Baselitz was an angry man in 1965, says Eva Mongi-Vollmer, curator at the  Stdel museum and the co-organiser, with the former museum director Max Hollein, of Georg Baselitz: the Heroes. The young artist revelled inbut then rejectedthe path offered by the Western canon of 20th-century art to which he was exposed upon leaving East Germany for West, having lived up until his 20s under the Nazis and then the German Democratic Republic. The work he was making was completely