In 2014, when asked to look back on his life, the modernist master George Baselitz reflected, “The most intact world is the world of art.” He was born in 1938—three years before Sigmar Polke and seven years before Anselm Kiefer—into a country reduced to rubble by the Second World War. This exhibition in Aalborg explores how war, crisis, and broken norms can open the way to artistic breakthroughs. —Elena Clavarino