Anselm Kiefer Hon RA (b. 1945)
Anselm Kiefer Hon RA (b. 1945)
The German painter Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen in Baden-Württemberg. From 1993 he lived and worked near the Cévennes in Barjac; since 2007 he has been working in Paris. After studying law, the romantic languages and literature, he devoted himself entirely to painting. He attended the School of Fine Arts at Fribourg-in-Brisgau followed by the Art Academy in Karlsuhe.
Kiefer’s oeuvre stems from a question of paramount importance: how, after the Holocaust, is it possible to be an artist subscribing to the German tradition? This existential work of memory broadened out to a spiritual quest fuelled by great myths and cabbalistic mysticism. His work combines painting, photography, book and sculpture.
Kiefer’s work has been collected and is shown at major museums throughout the world – including MoMA, The Metropolitan Museum and the Guggenheim Museum in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Berlin’s Neue Nationalgalerie, the Fort Worth Museum of Art in Texas and Amsterdam’s Rijksmuseum.
In 2007, he became the first artist to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre in Paris since Georges Braque some 50 years earlier. The same year, he inaugurated the Monumenta exhibitions series at the Grand Palais in Paris, with works paying special tribute to the poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann.
Anselm Kiefer was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize in Tokyo in 1999, and in 2008 he received the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. In 2010 Anselm Kiefer was appointed to the Chair of Artistic Creation at the renowned Collège de France in Paris, where he delivered nine lectures entitled Art will survive its ruins.
In 2014, the Royal Academy of Arts in London presented the first retrospective of Kiefer’s work to be held in the UK. In 2015, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Centre Pompidou in Paris showed major retrospectives of his artist books, paintings and installations.
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany
Nationality: German
Elected Hon RA: 29 May 1996
Gender: Male
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Preferred media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation art, and Artists' books
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Gallery
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Anselm Kiefer, Lichtung (Clearing), 2015.
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Anselm Kiefer, Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World), 2014.
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Anselm Kiefer, hortus conclusus, 2014.
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Anselm Kiefer, Unternehmen "Seelöwe", (Operation "Sea lion"), 1975.
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Selected CV
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Selected solo exhibitions
2017 Provocations: Anselm Kiefer at the Met Breuer, Met Breuer, New York
Anselm Kiefer: Bilder, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
Kiefer Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, travelling to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Anselm Kiefer-Ausflug, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Anselm Kiefer: For Velimir Khlebnikov- Fates of Nations, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
2016 Anselm Kiefer: Die Welt- ein Buch, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Regeneration Series: Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale
Anselm Kiefer: Walhalla, White Cube, London
Anselm Kiefer: The Woodcuts, Albertina Museum, Vienna
2015 Anselm Kiefer: Paintings, Sculpture & Installation, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Anselm Kiefer, l’alchimie du livre, Bibliothèques Nationale de France, Paris
Anselm Kiefer. Im Gewitter der Rosen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle
Anselm Kiefer. Paintings, White Cube, São Paulo
Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Grothe Collection, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
Anselm Kiefer, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2014 Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013 Anselm Kiefer, Morgenthau Plan, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2011 Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Anselm Kiefer, Shevirat Hakelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Anselm Kiefer, Il Mistero delle Cattedrali, White Cube, London
2009 From the Met to the Met, Anselm Kiefer and Wagner’s Ring, GalleryMet Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York
2007 Anselm Kiefer, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2005 Anselm Kiefer, Heaven and Earth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
1998 Anselm Kiefer, Works on Paper, 1969 – 1993, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1993 Anselm Kiefer, Melancholia, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
1991 Anselm Kiefer, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin -
Selected monographs
2015 Anselm Kiefer – Im Gewitter der Rosen, Orhan Pamuk (Salzburg: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac)
Anselm Kiefer, L’alchemie du livre, Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, Dominique Baqué, Jean-Luc Nancy and Christoph Ransmayr (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Editions du Regard)
Anselm Kiefer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Aeneas Bastian, Matthew Biro, Hadrien Laroche, Doïna Lemny, Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Lisa Saltzman. Anselm Kiefer (Paris: Centre Pompidou) Anselm Kiefer – Entre mythe et concept, Dominqué Baqué (Paris: Editions du Regard)
2014 Anselm Kiefer, Richard Davey, Kathleen Soriano and Christian Weikop (London: Royal Academy of the Arts)
Anselm Kiefer – Beyond Landscape, Janne Sirén (ed.), Bill Berkson, Diane Christian, Douglas Dreishpoon, David Felder, Simon Glass, Andreas Huyssen, Joe Martin Lin-Hill (Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
2013 Anselm Kiefer, Matthew Biro, London: Phaidon Press
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