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Kiefer, Anselm
Kiefer, Anselm (
b Donaueschingen, 8 Mar. 1945). German painter. Early in his career he was a
Conceptual artist, but he turned to painting and has become one of the leading exponents of
Neo-Expressionism, with an international reputation. He produces large, heavily worked canvases, often with objects or vegetable matter (such as plants or straw) attached to them (he has also mixed blood with his paint). Sometimes the surface is further ‘distressed’ by such means as scorching it with a blowtorch. Many of his pictures refer to German history or Nordic mythology and show an attempt to come to terms with his country's Nazi past. Another subject that has interested him is the Chinese Communist leader Mao Zedong (
Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, 2000, Tate, London).
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Anselm Kiefer
Magazine article from: Artforum; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; FORT WORTH, TX Anselm Kiefer MODERN ART MUSEUM OF FORT WORTH Anselm Kiefer's work is so well known, and has been so extensively written about and exhibited, one wondered what "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth," a traveling survey recently...
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Kiefer as occult poet: a currently traveling survey of Anselm Kiefer's work re-assesses his career, downplaying political controversy in favor of transhistorical mysticism.(Anselm Kiefer)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; From the beginning, reaction to Anselm Kiefer's work has been polarized. His...a response he referred to as "Anselm Angst" on the occasion of the artist...Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" offers...
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ANSELM KIEFER SHOW BURNS WITH ARTIST'S CORROSIVE INTENSITY.(What's Happening)
Newspaper article from: Seattle Post-Intelligencer (Seattle, WA); 7/9/1999; ; 700+ words
; The heavy sky in Anselm Kiefer's ``The Orders of...memory and murder. ``Anselm Kiefer and the Germanic...the dreamer's head. Kiefer's parents' generation...brought to light. ``Anselm Kiefer and the Germanic...
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Anselm Kiefer at MOMA. (Museum of Modern Art, New York)
Magazine article from: National Review; 3/10/1989; ; 700+ words
; ...aggressive and unabashed Germanness of the Anselm Kiefer retrospective at the Museum of Modern...dung, and acrylics, like the one Anselm Kiefer recently set up at MOMA...to the truculent mediocrities of Anselm Kiefer. They say that, notwithstanding...
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Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz.(Review) (book review)
Magazine article from: Shofar; 3/22/2001; ; 700+ words
; Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz, by Lisa Saltzman. Cambridge: Cambridge University...theory, and narratology, Lisa Saltzman places a leading German artist, Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945 to non-Jewish parents), in the sociohistorical matrix...
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Anselm Kiefer: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth.
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 3/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; Anselm Kiefer's work is so well known, and has been...about and exhibited, one wondered what "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth," a traveling...Foundation Beyeler's 2001-2002 show "Anselm Kiefer: The Seven Heavenly Palaces 1973...
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Kiefer's Cosmos.(painter Anselm Kiefer works shown in New York)
Magazine article from: Art in America; 12/1/1998; ; 700+ words
; ...four huge new paintings recently shown in New York, Anselm Kiefer uses timeless architectural forms, combined with highly...surfaces, to suggest an innate tragedy in human events. Anselm Kiefer's immense new paintings, based on photographs of...
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Out of the ashes.(exhibition of Anselm Kiefer's works of art)
Magazine article from: Commonweal; 2/12/1999; ; 700+ words
; The postwar art of Anselm Kiefer It does not take long for "Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969-93" - fifty-four watercolors, gouaches, woodcuts, acrylics, and photomontages on exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art until March 21...
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MARGARETE (1981) Anselm Kiefer SAATCHI COLLECTION
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 10/24/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...preoccupation of the German artist Anselm Kiefer, for whom Margarete and...uncomfortable relationship within Kiefer's work. In the Seventies...among the most powerful of Kiefer's works, and echo Rilke...away About the artist Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen...
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Dark arts and life; Anselm Kiefer ponders the deep stuff.(ARTS & CULTURE)(ART)
Newspaper article from: The Washington Times; 7/8/2006; 700+ words
; ...Sculpture Garden's "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth" evokes...forms of lead - a favorite Kiefer material - float in front...s beginnings, Mr. Kiefer fashioned a larger-than...before. +++++ WHAT: "Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth...
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Anselm Kiefer
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of World Biography
Anselm Kiefer The controversial work of the German artist Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) was a complex examination of many...through such unconventional materials as lead and straw. Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, southern Germany...
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Kiefer, Anselm
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
Kiefer, Anselm (1945– ). German painter, born in Donaueschingen. He...Wheeeler writes: ‘In the great black, apocalyptic paintings of Anselm Kiefer, a poet in paint born in the ashes of the Third Reich, the bardic...
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Neo-Expressionism
Book article from: A Dictionary of Twentieth-Century Art
...executed, sometimes with materials such as straw (see KIEFER ) or brocken crockery (see SCHNABEL ) embedded in their...xF6;rg Immendorf (1945– ), Anselm Kiefer, Bernd Koberling (1938– ...
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contemporary art
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...a number of artistic "neoisms." These include the neoexpressionism of such German artists as Georg Baselitz and Anselm Kiefer, of Italians including Francisco Clemente and Sandro Chia, and of the American Julian Schnabel . Among other contemporary...
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neoexpressionism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...Germany, beginning in the late 1960s and early 70s in the work of such artists as Georg Baselitz , A. R. Penck, and Anselm Kiefer. Other artists who soon began to paint in a neoexpressionist style include the Italians Sandro Chia, Francesco Clemente...
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