The late Georg Baselitz, who died earlier this year, is being honoured by a pair of exhibitions on either side of the Atlantic that span his first and final bodies of work. A show in Venice closed this week, while Thaddaeus Ropac opens a London exhibition next month and Gagosian follows with a New York presentation in November. Ropac's show, "Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66", runs from 13 October to 18 December in London and is the first exhibition in Britain devoted to the Hero Paintings. Made in a burst of productivity when the artist was just 27, the monumental canvases reimagined the heroic figure as battered and broken. Baselitz once said of them: "They're not heroes swinging their fists, they look broken, destroyed, ragged, tattered. And that's how I wanted them." In New York, Gagosian presents "Georg Baselitz: Meine Schule (My School)" from 12 November to 23 January 2027, curated by Richard Calvocoressi. The exhibition centres on two paintings inspired by the schoolhouse in Saxony where the artist's father taught and Baselitz himself was a pupil — the building where the family lived through the Nazi era and the Second World War. The New York show also includes the artist's last completed bronze, "Strawinsky (Stravinsky)" from 2026, derived from his marionette and set designs for a 2025 staging of Stravinsky's Faustian melodrama "The Soldier's Tale". Together, the two exhibitions frame a career that began with defiant figuration in the 1960s and closed, six decades later, with work still circling memory, music and the wounds of German history.