As one of the most important post-war and contemporary artists, Georg Baselitz has not only engaged intensely with German history, questions of identity, and his own biography, but has also always integrated the legacy of art history into his visual thinking. Committed to a form of painting that is both figurative and expressive, his works are characterized by different approaches and motifs that suggest multiplicity. The fact that the conception of the figure has always been a central theme of his is also demonstrated by his most recent drawings, which are defined by a composition that is spontaneous, unconstrained, format filling, and reminiscent of calligraphy. Thematically and stylistically, these drawings can be understood within the context of those he donated to the Bayerische Staatsgemäldesammlungen in honor of Franz, Duke of Bavaria, in 2018. After Fred Jahn had begun cataloguing Baselitz’s works on paper and prints as early as the end of the 1960s, a permanent collaboration between artist and gallery owner followed after the gallery was founded.