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.

266.8K, 1125 x 757	Jerusalem (in two parts) Painted: 1986 Acrylic, emulsion, shellac, and gold leaf on canvas With steel and lead 380 x 560 cm Collection of Susan and Lewis Manilow Chicago	Margarete Painted: 1981 Oil and straw on canvas 280 x 380 cm Saatchi Collection London	292.0K, 1088 x 777
291.0K, 1090 x 780	Die Meistersinger Painted: 1981-82 Oil, emulsion, and sand on photograph Mounted on canvas 280 x 380 cm Private collection	Nuremberg Painted: 1982 Acrylic, emulsion, and straw on canvas 280 x 380 cm Collection of Eli and Edythe L. Broad Los Angeles	316.2K, 1076 x 780
202.9K, 767 x 1128	Resurrexit Painted: 1973 Oil, acrylic, and charcoal on burlap 290 x 180 cm Collection Sanders Amsterdam	Your Golden Hair, Margarete Painted: 1981 Oil, emulsion, and straw on canvas 130 x 170 cm Collection Sanders Amsterdam	316.3K, 1052 x 796
257.0K, 1367 x 608	March Heath Painted: 1974 Oil, acrylic, and shellac on burlap 118 x 254 cm Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven	Nero Paints Painted: 1974 Oil on canvas 220 x 300 cm Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst Munich	287.9K, 1081 x 788
288.8K, 1191 x 701	Nigredo Painted: 1984 Oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac and straw Mounted on canvas, with woodcut 330 x 555 cm Philadelphia Museum of Art	The Red Sea Painted: 1984-85 Oil, emulsion, and shellac on photograph Mounted on canvas, with woodcut and lead 278.8 x 425.1 cm Museum of Modern Art New York	240.2K, 1133 x 732