Arguably Germany’s best working artist, Anselm Kiefer creates earthy paintings, symbol-laden sculptures, and poetic works on paper, exploring alchemy, mythology, history, and mysticism.
Kiefer, who studied with transformative artist Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf, came into his own in the ’70s and ’80s with large-scale, expressive paintings of decaying interiors and barren landscapes, which were interpreted as exorcising the demons of Germany’s World War II guilt.
A darling of international museum collections and exhibitions, Kiefer works out of a massive factory in the south of France, which he has made into a gesamtkunstwerk, or total artwork. He recently added Opera Director to his resume with In the Beginning, a hybrid theatrical production and art installation at the Opera National de Paris.
View a survey of Kiefer’s early landscapes, check out his works on paper, watch a film about his work, visit his Salzburg solo show, read about his Paris opera, and buy his massive Guggenheim retrospective book.
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Go check Kiefer out. Amazing work. Not quite Bueys, but what is? Still, the massive scale, the conception of the Art-made reality he creates in the sheer scale of the works is beyond all but the very few. If you ever get to see the work in person RUN to the museum! Pictures can’t really convey it.
Only the people and place that gave us Wagner and The Ring Cycle could have given us Anselm Kiefer. The art has deep roots in the North of Europe…
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