This compelling female figure clothed in a white crinoline dress, whose head is supplanted by a stack of leaden books, embodies the Greek poetess Anythe and relates to Anselm Kiefer’s long-running series Frauen der Antike, or Woman of Antiquity. In this series Kiefer explores some of his most cherished themes, namely the inextricably linked ...

Feb 7, 2024 · Wim Wenders’ film Anselm begins with the light of dawn, and a sequence of sculptures from Anselm Kiefer’s Die Frauen der Antike / Women of Antiquity series. The first, is a flowing, tethered white dress being slowly reclaimed by nature’s elements, the camera pans through trees, accompanied by an operatic female voice in German, then a ...

Anselm Kiefer Engel-Sturz (The Fall of the Angels), 2010 Painted cotton dresses, wire, steel frame, glass pane, and oil, emulsion, acrylic, shellac, clay on canvas in inscribed glass and steel vitrine

Dec 15, 2017 · Kiefer’s work has been rightly characterized as part of this effort. He first attained notoriety with his 1969 series of provocative and ironic photographs, Besetzungen (Occupations), which featured the artist standing in various locations around Germany giving the Nazi salute. From the photographs, he proceeded to an equally provocative ...

Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac.

Five outdoor sculptures from Anselm Kiefer’s Frauen der Antike (Women of Antiquity) (1999–2002) and Femmes martyres (2018–19) series are on view at the Renzo Piano–designed art pavilion at Château La Coste. The bronze dresses, each bearing an attribute of a female historical or mythological figure, are situated among the pavilion’s ...

Sep 9, 2024 · The “women” of La Ribaute – artist Anselm Kiefer’s jaw-dropping 100-acre studio estate in the village of Barjac in southern France – are everywhere. Cast as empty white dresses, numbering in the dozens, they serve as sentries, appear as …

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) Die Ordnung der Engel (The Hierarchy of The Angels) titled 'Die Ordnung der Engel' (along the upper edge) paint, clay, ash, chalk, iron, cotton and linen dresses on panel 112 3/8 x 55 3/8in, (285 x 140cm.) Executed in 2007

Jul 31, 2021 · Images from the Anselm Kiefer long-term exhibition: die Schechina (Sefiroth), 2010 Painted resin dress, glass shards, steel, numbered glass discs, and wire in inscribed glass and steel vitrine

Kiefer’s work frequently addresses or alludes to the essential role of memory – and its fragile, politically and psychologically vulnerable essence. Here, in the boxcar, much of what has been “documented” is inaccessible.