An innovative postwar artist, Georg Baselitz firmly embraced German Expressionism, a style reviled by the Nazis. “I was born into a destroyed order, a destroyed landscape, a destroyed people, a destroyed society,” he said. “I didn’t want to re-establish an order: I’d seen enough of so-called order.” Born in 1938 in Deutschbaselitz, Baselitz grew up among ruin and political disorder. He produced distorted and often grotesque figures, depicted upside down to detach them from easy reading, easy meaning. After an acclaimed career, Baselitz died on April 30, at 88. White Cube brings together 30 final paintings—an ode to his wife, Elke Kretzschmar, and the bookend of a 60-year career. —Maggie Turner