Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. After attending numerous universities which included studying under Joseph Beuys, Kiefer initiated his career with images of himself in the Hitler salute and became astutely political in art. He has involved himself with German history and the horror of the Holocaust and other devastations that have brought him to question the role of art and the artist in the long, ongoing process of reconstruction.
This assessment of the role has led him to create a collective memory and reinvention of a national identity and to reinstate a people into a regenerative process that was guided by a cosmological vision. Kiefer’s work covers a broad range of ideas and looks into mythology, religion, the Kabbalah, literature of great poets and philosophers.
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