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Summary of Anselm Kiefer. 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 Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen, Baden-Württembürg, Germany, and raised near the east bank of the Rhine in the region of the Black Forest. Kiefer was named after the nineteenth-century classical painter Anselm Feuerbach and planned from childhood to become an artist.
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.
Near the medieval village of Barjac in the foothills of the Massif Central mountain range in southern France, Anselm Kiefer has been carving up the landscape in and around an abandoned silk mill...
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. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horrors of the Holocaust, as ...
Anselm Kiefer’s monumental body of work represents a microcosm of collective memory, visually encapsulating a broad range of cultural, literary, and philosophical allusions—from the Old and New Testaments, Kabbalah mysticism, Norse mythology and Wagner’s Ring Cycle to the poetry of Ingeborg Bachmann and Paul Celan.
Anselm Kiefer, German painter who became one of the most prominent figures in the Neo-Expressionist art movement of the late 20th century. A number of his works deal ironically with 20th-century German history, including the Nazi period. Learn more about Kiefer’s life and art.
Jun 22, 2022 · He served as creative director and editor-in-chief of L’Officiel Art and has curated numerous international exhibitions, including the Taipei Biennial (2000), Biennale de Lyon (2005), and recently Erwin Wurm: One Minute Forever at the Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade (2022). Photo: Janarbek Amankulov/Saparlas.
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)
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