Kiefer, Anselm

Kiefer, Anselm (born 1945), German painter, born in Donaueschingen; 1966 left law studies at Univ. of Freiburg to study at art academies in Freiburg, Karlsruhe, Dusseldorf; made huge paintings using symbolic photographic images to deal ironically with 20th-c. German history; developed array of visual symbols commenting on tragic aspects of German history and culture, particularly Nazi period; in 1970s painted series of landscapes that capture rutted, somber German countryside; paintings of 1980s acquired physical presence through use of perspective devices and unusual textures; broadened themes to include references to ancient Hebrew and Egyptian history.

• Resurrexit
  1973 (200 Kb); Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on burlap, 290 x 180 cm (114 3/16 x 70 7/8 in); Collection Sanders, Amsterdam
  
• March Heath
  1974 (260 Kb); Oil, acrylic, and shellac on burlap, 118 x 254 cm (46 1/2 x 100 in); Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
  
• Nero Paints
  1974 (290 Kb); Oil on canvas, 220 x 300 cm (86 5/8 x 118 1/8 in); Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich
  
• Margarete
  1981 (290 Kb); Oil and straw on canvas, 280 x 380 cm (110 x 149 5/8); Saatchi Collection, London
  
• Your Golden Hair, Margarete
  1981 (320 Kb); Oil, emulsion, and straw on canvas, 130 x 170 cm (51 3/16 x 67 in); Collection Sanders, Amsterdam
  
• Die Meistersinger
  1981-82 (290 Kb); Oil, emulsion, and sand on photograph, mounted on canvas, 280 x 380 cm (110 1/4 x 149 5/8 in); Private collection
  
• Nuremberg
  1982 (320 Kb); Acrylic, emulsion, and straw on canvas, 280 x 380 cm (110 1/4 x 149 5/8 in); Collection of Eli and Edythe L. Broad, Los Angeles
  
• Nigredo
  1984 (290 Kb); Oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac, and straw, on photograph, mounted on canvas, with woodcut, 330 x 555 cm (130 x 218 1/2 in); Philadelphia Museum of Art
  
• The Red Sea
  1984-85 (240 Kb); Oil, emulsion, and shellac on photograph,, mounted on canvas, with woodcut and lead; 278.8 x 425.1 cm (109 3/4 x 167 3/8 in); Museum of Modern Art, New York
  
• Jerusalem
  1986 (270 Kb); Acrylic, emulsion, shellac, and gold leaf on canvas (in two parts), with steel and lead; 380 x 560 cm (150 x 220 1/2 in); Collection of Susan and Lewis Manilow, Chicago