Talk:Anselm Kiefer

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

This article must adhere to the policy on biographies of living persons. Controversial material about living persons that is unsourced or poorly sourced must be removed immediately, especially if potentially libellous. If such material is repeatedly inserted or if there are other concerns relative to this policy, report it on the living persons biographies noticeboard.

	This article is within the scope of WikiProject Biography. For more information, visit the project page.	Biography Portal
Start	This article has been rated as Start-Class on the project's quality scale. [FAQ]
	This article is supported by the Arts and Entertainment work group.

[edit] Need help finding a work

Does anyone know where I can find a jpeg or something for the work "noch ist Poland nicht verloren" (in english, Poland is not yet lost)?

[edit] German translation

I thought I'd start translating the German wikipedia entry on Anselm Kiefer, graf by graf:

Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945 in Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He later moved to Rastatt and then studied visual arts under Peter Dreher in Freiburg im Breisgau, under Horst Antes in Karlsruhe, and under Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf. In 1969, he had his first solo exhibition, presenting the series of paintings, "Occupations," in Karlsruhe.

Kiefer counts among the best-known, most successful and most controversial post-War German artists. He first became known for his Materialbilder; that is, pictures that are not painted or drawn, but composed of various materials. Over the course of his oeuvre, Kiefer addresses the past, touching especially on taboos and trends in contemporary history. Thus, the theme of Nazi Germany has drawn his attention: for the painting "Margarethe" (oil and straw on canvas) the well-known poem "Death Fugue," by Paul Celan, served as inspiration. The result has been a decades-long controversy in the media over the worth of his artistic production.

During his time in Düsseldorf, Kiefer oriented himself stylistically along the lines of Georg Baselitz: thickly appllied layers of color worked over with fire and edge tools, and combined with glass, wood and vegetal elements. In the 1970s he explored German mythology (see also: Jonathan Meese), and in the 1980s he became interested in Jewish mysticism, notably the Kabbala. During extended trips in the Americas, Europe and the Middle East, Kiefer found a number of new influences, from which impressive new work arose. Alongside paintings, Kiefer began to make watercolors, woodcuts, colored photos and books.

His pieces manifest a suffocating, almost depressive and destructive style...Chrisvnicholson 19:32, 26 June 2007 (UTC)