In 1969 he created the first of his typical pictures, which presents the motif upsdie down. Besides painting, drawing, printing and wood sculpturing gained more and more importance. At the beginning of the 1970s the artist was well-known in Germany through numerous exhibitions. In 1977, Baselitz was appointed to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Karlsruhe. From 1983 to 1988, he continued his professorship at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste in Berlin. In 1980, he designed the German pavilion for the Venice Biennale, exhibited at the documenta VII and had countless exhibitions and retrospectives in major international art forums, e.g. at the Guggenheim Museum in New York in 1995. In 2004 Baselitz received the 'Nobel prize for arts', the 'Praemium Imperiale' of the Japan Association. The committee justified the award of the world's highest prize for contemporary art by pointing out that for decades, Georg Baselitz has formed the international art scene with his powerful painting.