Anselm Kiefer

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• Publications

  → Anselm Kiefer - Field of the Cloth of Gold, Book by Anselm Kiefer and Richard Calvocoressi, 2021

  → Anselm Kiefer: Superstrings, Runes, the Norns, Gordian Knot, Book by Anselm Kiefer, Janne Sirén, and Klaus Dermutz, 2020

  → Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm, Book by James Lawrence and Karl Ove Knausgård, 2018
  

• Exhibitions

  → Anselm Kiefer, Jun 21– Aug 24, 2024, Gagosian
  Athens, Greece

  → Anselm Kiefer Punctum, Apr 25– Jul 3, 2024, Gagosian, New York , NY USA

  → The Poetry of Fluids - Part II, Apr 2– Jun 14, 2024, Samuel Le Paire Fine Art, Paris, France

  → Anselm Kiefer For Jean-Noël Vuarnet, Jan 24– Mar 2, 2024, White Cube, London, United Kingdom

  → Anselm Kiefer: A Journey Through the Past, Mönchengladbach Museum, Germany (2020)

• Awards

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The Orders of the Night (Die Orden der Nacht), 1996, emulsion, acrylic, and shellac on canvas, 140 ⅜ × 182 ⅜ inches (356 × 463 cm).

Seraphim, Oil, straw, emulsion, and shellac on canvas, 126 1/4 x 130 1/4 inches (320.7 x 330.8 cm), 1983–84

Margarethe (1981), Oil, acrylic, emulsion, and straw on canvas, 280 × 400 cm

Untitled, Woodcut, shellac and acrylic on paper on canvas, 11 ft. 11 1/4 in. × 97 in. (363.9 × 246.4 cm). 1996

Aus Herzen und Hirnen sprießen die Halme der Nacht, 2011. Oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac and chalk on canvas. 280 x 570 x 7 cm

der Morgenthau Plan, 2012, acrylic, emulsion, oil, and shellac on photograph mounted on canvas, 110 x 224 inches (279.4 x 568.96 cm)

Die Ungeborenen, acrylic, emulsion, oil, shellac and photographic paper laid down on canvas 190.5 by 281.5cm.; 75 1/8 by 110 3/4 in, 2013

Waldsteig, 2023 Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf and sediment of electrolysis 280 x 380 cm (110.24 x 149.61 in)

Der Rhein, 2023 Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf and sediment of electrolysis

Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr,, 2021 Emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, clay, lead and hemp on canvas 190 x 280 cm (74.8 x 110.24 in)

Anselm Kiefer is a German artist who has explored his country’s postwar identity, history, and mythology throughout his career. A painter, sculptor, and installation artist, materiality figures heavily into Kiefer’s practice. His large-scale paintings achieve their characteristic texture through his liberal application of pigments combined with found organic matter, metal, and lead, resulting in stark, haunting images with an imposing physicality. “Ruins, for me, are the beginning,” he mused. “With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.” Born on March 8, 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany, Kiefer grew up in the aftermath of bombed houses, something which made a profound impact on him. The artist went on to study under the influential Conceptual artist Joseph Beuys at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. While in Düsseldorf during the 1970s, he developed an interest in working with diverse materials and was influenced by the Neo-Expressionist painters Georg Baselitz and Jörg Immendorf. In 2016, the artist’s exhibition “Walhalla”—which takes its name from the warrior’s heaven of Norse mythology—opened at White Cube gallery in London to critical acclaim. Kiefer currently lives and works in Paris, France. His works are held in the collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, The Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Tate Gallery in London, and the Stedelijk Museum of Modern Art in Amsterdam, among others.