Detlev Gretenkort is an art historian and since years the private secretary of Georg Baselitz, he is the editor together with Rainer Michael Mason of Vol. III. Georg Baselitz. Peintre Graveur, Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1983- 1989, as well as for Vol. IV. Catalog Raisonné for the Graphic Work 1989- 1992, and now of the forthcoming Vol. V, 1993- 1998. Georg Baselitz, born as Hans-Georg Kern in Deutschbaselitz in 1938, is one of the most internationally renowned German artists of the post-war period. He became known with figurative, expressive paintings, sculptures and prints. His work has been celebrated in countless retrospectives to date, including 2011 at the Musé e d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, 2014 Haus der Kunst Munich, 2016 Stadeln Museum Frankfurt, 2019 Academia Venice, 2022 Centre Pompidou Paris. In addition to numerous participations in the documenta 1972, 1977, 1982 and the Venice Biennale in 1980. Rainer Michael Mason is an art historian and a specialist in prints, he is the editor together with Detlev Gretenkort of Vol. III. Georg Baselitz. Peintre Graveur, Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1983- 1989, as well as for Vol. IV. Catalog Raisonné for the Graphic Work 1989- 1992, and now of the forthcoming Vol. V, 1993- 1998. Rainer Michael Mason is an art historian and a specialist in prints, he is the editor together with Detlev Gretenkort of Vol. III. Georg Baselitz. Peintre Graveur, Catalog Raisonné of the Graphic Work 1983- 1989, as well as for Vol. IV. Catalog Raisonné for the Graphic Work 1989- 1992, and now of the forthcoming Vol. V, 1993- 1998.