Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.

Anselm Kiefer's monumental, often confrontational canvases were groundbreaking at a time when painting was considered all but dead as a medium. The artist is most known for his subject matter dealing with German history and myth, particularly as it relates to the Holocaust.

Oct 1, 2008 · Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8, 1945, in Donaueschingen, Baden-Württembürg, Germany, and raised near the east bank of the Rhine in the region of the Black Forest. Kiefer was named after the nineteenth-century classical painter Anselm Feuerbach and planned from childhood to become an artist.

Mar 5, 2025 · Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen, Germany) is a German painter who became one of the most prominent figures in the Neo-Expressionist art movement of the late 20th century. Kiefer abandoned his law studies …

Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.

Anselm Kiefer is interested in the human search for meaning. His art addresses philosophical concerns such as transience, rebirth and memory. Kiefer made new – previously unseen – work especially for this exhibition.

Anselm Kiefer is a German artist who has explored his country’s postwar identity, history, and mythology throughout his career. View Anselm Kiefer’s 1,072 artworks on artnet. Find an in-depth biography, exhibitions, original artworks for sale, the latest news, and sold auction prices.

Sep 24, 2014 · This week the RA welcomes the works of German artist Anselm Kiefer: from intimate watercolours and artist’s books, to vast paintings, complex sculpture, and installations on a monumental scale. Kiefer is one of the most important artists of the last 50 years.

Mar 7, 2025 · Anselm Kiefer’s new installation seems to envelop the grand staircase of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Paintings reach from floor to ceiling in colors of oxidized copper and gold leaf.

Fusing art and literature, painting and sculpture, Anselm Kiefer engages the complex events of history and the ancestral epics of life, death, and the cosmos.