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Arts & Culture | November/December 2022. The Artwork That Took 30 Years and 200 Acres to Create. Renowned artist Anselm Kiefer goes big with his massive installation in southern France. In...
Kiefer's works are included in numerous public collections, including the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin; the Museum of Modern Art and the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit; the Tate Modern, London; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; the Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; the North Carolina Museum of Art ...
View all 39 artworks. Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945, a remarkable figure of German-Austrian Contemporary and Neo-Expressionism. Find more works of this artist at Wikiart.org – best visual art database.
Anselm Kiefer's monumental, often confrontational canvases were groundbreaking at a time when painting was considered all but dead as a medium. The artist is most known for his subject matter dealing with German history and myth, particularly as it relates to the Holocaust.
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
He is best known for his paintings ( 1997.4ab ), which have grown increasingly large in scale with additions of lead, broken glass, and dried flowers or plants. Their encrusted surfaces and thick layers of impasto are physical evocations of the sediments of time and meaning they convey.
View Anselm Kiefer’s 1,040 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices. See available paintings, works on paper, and photographs for sale and learn about the artist.
Kiefer’s oeuvre encompasses paintings, vitrines, installations, artist books, and an array of works on paper such as drawings, watercolors, collages, and altered photographs. The physical elements of his practice—from lead, concrete, and glass to textiles, tree roots, and burned books—are as symbolically resonant as they are vast-ranging.
Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: Böhmen liegt am Meer (Bohemia Lies by the Sea) Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945) Date: 1996. Medium: Oil, emulsion, shellac, charcoal, and powdered paint on burlap. Dimensions: 75 1/4 in. × 18 ft. 5 in. (191.1 × 561.3 cm)
