Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) Anselm Kiefer. Anselm Kiefer. ANSELM KIEFER Paul Celan: wir schöpften die Finsternis leer, wir fanden das wort, das den Sommer heraufkam: Blume; (We scooped the darkness empty, we found the word that ascended summer: flower) , 2012 Oil, emulsion, acrylic, on photograph on canvas 110 1/4 x 149 5/8 inches (280 x 380 cm ) Anselm Kiefer Listed Exhibitions (34 Kb) Anselm Kiefer Bibliography (30 Kb) Born in 1945 in Donauschingen, Germany, at the close of World War II, Anselm Kiefer studied art informally under Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Academy in the early 1970s.

Kiefer reflects upon and critiques the myths and chauvinism which eventually propelled the German Third Reich to power.