Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Baden-Württemberg, Germany on March 8th, 1945 and is the Painter. At the age of 79, Anselm Kiefer biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor.
He studied with Peter Dreher during the 1970s.
His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.
The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah. In his entire body of work, Kiefer argues with the past and addresses taboo and controversial issues from recent history.
Themes from Nazi rule are particularly reflected in his work; for instance, the painting "Margarethe" (oil and straw on canvas) was inspired by Paul Celan's well-known poem "Todesfuge" ("Death Fugue"). His works are characterised by an unflinching willingness to confront his culture's dark past, and unrealised potential, in works that are often done on a large, confrontational scale well suited to the subjects.
It is also characteristic of his work to find signatures and/or names of people of historical importance, legendary figures or historical places.
All of these are encoded sigils through which Kiefer seeks to process the past; this has resulted in his work being linked with the movements New Symbolism and Neo–Expressionism.Kiefer has lived and worked in France since 1992.
Since 2008, he has lived and worked primarily in Paris.
In 2018, he was awarded Austrian citizenship.
Personal life and career
Kiefer, the son of a German art instructor, was born in Donaueschingen just a few months before World War II came to an end. Kiefer grew up surrounded by the war's devastation. His family immigrated to Ottersdorf in 1951, and he attended public school in Rastatt, graduating high school in 1965. He studied pre-law and Romance languages at the University of Freiburg. However, after three semesters he switched to art, studying at art academies in Freiburg and Karlsruhe. He studied under Peter Dreher, a realist and figurative painter, in Karlsruhe. In 1969, he received his bachelor's degree.
Kiefer founded a studio in Hornbach, Germany, in 1971. He remained in the Neckar-Odenwald-Kreis until 1992; his output during this first creative period is known as The German Years. In 1992, he immigrated to France.
On his way to Barjac in 1992, Kiefer left his first wife and children in Germany. He lived in Paris from 2008 to 2006, with his second wife, Austrian photographer Renate Graf, and their two children. In 2014, Kiefer and Graf divorced.
Kiefer was ranked one of Germany's top 1,001 individuals and families in 2017, according to the monthly business publication Manager Magazin.