It is with sorrow that the Fondazione Giorgio Cini has learned of the passing of Georg Baselitz, the great artist who chose to present his “Eroi d’Oro” on the Island of San Giorgio Maggiore.
In this series of astonishing beauty, Elke is always present. His final paintings—portraits of himself and of her—honest, unhesitating, and profoundly human, float suspended, inverted, between a golden eternity and the many golden worlds and lives they shared together.
