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Anselm Kiefer

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Alemán
Nacimiento/Muerte
1945-

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Alemán nacido en los últimos meses de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, Anselm Kiefer creció entre las cenizas del Tercer Reich. Entre sus primeros recuerdos están las ciudades bombardeadas y los campos quemados, imágenes imborrables que el artista reciclaría posteriormente en su obra. Aunque Kiefer aborda con frecuencia en su arte temas históricos, incluida la época nazi, no conmemora ni ilustra. Más bien emplea la historia y la mitología (otra forma de memoria) junto con la ciencia, la literatura y la filosofía en una meditación sostenida sobre el tiempo, la existencia y el trágico curso de los acontecimientos humanos.

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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. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horrors of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah. When he was 18, Kiefer set out on a year-long tour to visit places in The Netherlands, Belgium and France which had associations with Van Gogh. Excerpts from the diary that he kept indicate how strongly he was influenced by Van Gogh. 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 Margarete (oil and straw on canvas) was…