When his career in art began in the 1950s, Georg Baselitz was looking for a way to paint that nobody had seen before. In 1969, he hit on it: he began painting his figures upside down, a conceptual twist that brought worldwide acclaim. Baselitz meant to force viewers to slow down and focus on the surface, shape, and color of a work. In this exhibition of 50 drawings that Baselitz recently donated to the Albertina, we see him moving from the representational motifs of his early days to a more abstract relationship with pictorial design. —Elena Clavarino