Thaddaeus Ropac will open the first British exhibition devoted entirely to Georg Baselitz's celebrated Hero paintings at its Ely House space in London this month. Titled Georg Baselitz: The Heroes 1965–66, the show runs from 13 October to 18 December 2026, with an opening on the evening of 13 October. The Hero paintings date from the artist's formative years in West Berlin and are widely regarded as one of the defining bodies of work of his early career. Often described as a landmark of post-war European painting, the series introduced the visual motifs, concepts and existential themes that would shape Baselitz's practice for decades to come. The London presentation brings together loans from major public collections, including Tate, Berlinische Galerie, Museum Frieder Burda and Museum Küppersmühle Duisburg, alongside works from the artist's family holdings and private collections. An accompanying catalogue features a text by Max Hollein, Director and CEO of The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. The exhibition coincides with Frieze Week in London, when the gallery traditionally stages its most prominent autumn projects. Ropac is staging the show across its Ely House galleries in Mayfair, one of the gallery's principal London venues. The Hero paintings were made in West Berlin in the mid-1960s, when the artist was establishing his identity as a painter of a generation that had inherited a shattered continent. Baselitz has said: "I was born into a destroyed order; a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society. And I didn't want to reestablish an order: I'd seen enough of so-called 'order'." The hardcover catalogue, in English, is priced at 45 euros and extends the exhibition's argument that these early works remain central to understanding the arc of his career.