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	artnet.com Magazine Features - Anselm Kiefer: The Spirit of Gray
		Kiefer's roughhewn surface -- whether of paint or other material it has a carved, "Gothic" look (sometimes the paint is cracked, suggesting the brittleness of Germany as well as the effect of time, thus undermining the sense of timeless infinity the formless gray evokes) -- does nothing to lift the bleak spell of the gray.
		Kiefer's cosmos is not the fulsome space of a cornucopia, and his stars are not its ripe fruit.
		Anselm Kiefer, "Merkaba," was on view Nov. 8-Dec. 14, 2002, at Gagosian Gallery, 555 West 24th Street, New York, N.Y. is professor of art history and philosophy at SUNY Stony Brook and A.D. White professor at large at Cornell University.
	www.artnet.com /magazine/features/kuspit/kuspit12-19-02.asp (2768 words)

	AE160D Unit 19: Anselm kiefer
		Anselm Kiefer belongs to the group of artists known as the Neo-expressionists because of his use of familiar images to express his concerns and beliefs in a narrative fashion.
		Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany and raised in towns in the Black Forest region near the east bank of the Rhine.
		Kiefer also worked in three dimensions to communicate the weight of history through his lead books, each weighing 300 kilos His sculpture, "The High Priestess" (1986-1989) consists of 200 lead books arranged on two steel book shelves which are leaned against each other, but separated by a panel of heavy glass.
	arted.osu.edu /160/19_Kiefer.php (786 words)

	HIRSHHORN: Anselm Kiefer-Heaven and Earth
		Kiefer’s art can be called labyrinthine or maze-like due to the complexity and layering of his references, symbols, and images, which intertwine such diverse sources as treatises on alchemy; Nordic, Greek, Egyptian, and early Christian mythology; and mystical Jewish texts.
		Kiefer has never limited himself to one medium, and his groundbreaking approaches to painting and sculpture are equaled by his assertion of the book as a visual art form.
		Kiefer’s focus on star charts is also a means of looking back to a time when the night sky evoked the possibility of a mysterious heavenly realm and planets were strange messengers that suggested our beginnings.
	www.hirshhorn.si.edu /Kiefer/exhibition.html (999 words)

	Anselm Kiefer Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, southern Germany, on March 8, 1945, during the final days of the collapse of the Third Reich.
		Kiefer's paintings often have their titles written boldly across them (and sometimes specific names as well), allowing the works to be read both as images and conceptually as linguistic fragments.
		Kiefer's art began in the milieu of the late 1960s; the conceptual side of his work has often been present, as has the use of unconventional materials associated with process art (in Kiefer's case, lead, straw, sand, etc.).
	www.bookrags.com /biography/anselm-kiefer (1319 words)

	Acquavella: Anselm Kiefer's Biography
		Kiefer is an internationally celebrated artist known for large, paintings and installations that confront historical, mythological and literary themes.
		Kiefer’s paintings of death and rebirth entwine myth and history, legend and fact.
		Beginning in the late 1960’s, Kiefer applied straw and sand to large photographs, works that are considered to be shamanistic attempts at transcendence through materials.
	www.acquavellagalleries.com /main/artist_bio.cfm?artist_id=141 (186 words)

	Major Survey of Anselm Kiefer's Works at SFMOMA \| Art Knowledge News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth begins with the artist’s earliest surviving work, The Heavens (1969), a small collage book containing pictures of clouds and sky cut from magazines and affixed to white pages labeled with text.
		This last decade and a half of Kiefer’s output reveals a new chapter in the artist’s development: Fields of lilting sunflowers, immense desert landscapes, colossal pyramids, and panoramas of stars are now a part of Kiefer’s cosmological vocabulary.
		Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth is accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue of the same title published by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in collaboration with Prestel, featuring texts and an interview with the artist by Michael Auping.
	www.artknowledgenews.com /Anselm_Kiefer-at-SFMOMA.html (1185 words)

	Anselm Kiefer
		This image is emblematic of what turns out to be a recurrent motif: his ambivalent relationship to the German past; the jarring, somewhat goofy sense of humor with which he confronts WWII taboos; and the use of barren landscapes to stage his dramas of Germany past and present.
		Another frequent icon in Kiefer's oeuvre is the palette, his pointedly pedestrian symbol for the painter's enterprise.
		Kiefer has sometimes depicted the German heroine's locks as straw adhered to the canvas; in this work, they appear in watercolor as sheaves of wheat in a field.
	www.artchive.com /artchive/K/kiefer.html (909 words)

	The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum: Anselm Kiefer: Velimir Chlebnikov (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kiefer casts Chlebnikov's complex ideas in the midst of an historic sea battle, onto the surface of canvas, resulting in thirty works that are actually part painting, part sculpture, as he applies actual ship models onto the surface of highly-worked canvases that he has applied layer upon layer of oil paint.
		Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany.
		Kiefer has exhibited his diverse body of work throughout the world over the past forty years, and is included in the world's most prestigious collections.
	www.aldrichart.org /exhibitions/kiefer.php (464 words)

	Melancholia - Anselm Kiefer
		Anselm Kiefer's Melancholia,1990-91, is one of four large-scale lead sculpture airplanes that the artist created in the past decade.
		Kiefer's art explores recent German history without memorializing; rather, it speaks of a transcendence of such oppositions as spiritual and material, heaven and earth, emphasized through his use of symbolic images such as the grounded airplane.
		Kiefer's sculptures in lead comment on the dual nature of ideas, history and forms of expression, exposing what is "real" by encompassing oppositions.
	www.herreros.com.ar /melanco/kiefer.htm (279 words)

	Anselm Kiefer
		Anselm Kiefer’s work is so well known, and has been so extensively written about and exhibited, one wondered what “Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth,” a traveling survey recently at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, could possibly add to the dialogue.
		In one such instance of revelation, the artist’s palette in Palette, which according to Kiefer “represents the idea of the artist connecting heaven and earth,” is depicted tenuously suspended between two burning ropes-yet here the painting’s mood is heroic, defiant, triumphant.
		Auping quotes Kiefer as saying, “We cannot stand not to have a heaven in our minds.” Fortunately for us, he doesn’t keep his thoughts to himself.
	www.coldbacon.com /art/artforum/kiefer-auping.html (348 words)

	Amazon.fr : Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz: Livres en anglais: Lisa Saltzman (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz examines the legacy of German-Jewish culture in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
		Positioning Kiefer as a deeply learned artist who encounters and represents history in painted, rather than written form, Lisa Saltzman contends that his work is unique among post-war German artists in his persistent exploration of the legacy of fascism.
		Anselm Kiefer and Art After Auschwitz examines the possibilities and limits of painting in the aftermath of the Holocaust.
	www.amazon.fr /Anselm-Kiefer-Art-After-Auschwitz/dp/0521794439 (518 words)

	David Cohen on Anselm Kiefer at Gagosian Gallery (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kiefer's monumental installations in lead, concrete, and rusted steel, his landscapes painted, literally, in scorched earth, heaped-on straw and other appropriated matter, have an eerie, post-nuclear grandeur about them.
		For a start, all that texture in Kiefer, the matière stuck onto his canvases and sprawled on the floor, is impossible without the French existentialist graffiti artist Dubuffet and without arte povera, the Italian minimalist movement, and without Rauschenberg, inventor of gray mush over photographs, and without Cy Twombly, master of the artful scrawl.
		None of this is to deny that Anselm Kiefer is highly inventive, possibly indeed superior to peers and forebears alike.
	www.artcritical.com /DavidCohen/DCIrony&Ecstasy.htm (1399 words)

	North Carolina Museum of Art
		Born in Germany in 1945, Anselm Kiefer grew up in a country rebuilding from the ashes of war and redefining its place in history.
		The somber colors and weighty themes of Kiefer's paintings reflect his grappling with the horrific recent past of his homeland as well as with more ancient and universal human concerns about life and death, good and evil.
		Kiefer is intrigued by the concept found in many world religions that all things emanate from God and return unto him again in a continuous cycle of transformation from spirit to matter to spirit.
	www.ncartmuseum.org /collections/highlights/20thcentury/20th/1950-2000/kiefer_lrg.shtml (456 words)

	Amazon.fr : Anselm Kiefer: Heaven And Earth: Livres en anglais: Anselm Kiefer,Michael Auping (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kiefer is an international art star and a German master of scorched and scummy stuff who deploys a prodigious vision on an enormous scale.
		Kiefer's world is famously gray, typified by his extensive use of lead as a symbol of ambiguity, alchemy, and human potential.
		From his earliest sculptures to his recent highly textured paintings, Anselm Kiefer has woven themes of heaven and earth into his work, exploring the polarities of these ideas while struggling to define the transcendent quality that places art squarely in between.
	www.amazon.fr /Anselm-Kiefer-Heaven-Earth/dp/0929865243 (495 words)

	ArtandCulture Artist: Anselm Kiefer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		The works of German painter Anselm Kiefer explore the intersection of Germany’s recent history and the artist's individual experiences.
		Expressing the ambiguous experience of the innocent, postwar generation of Germans contending with the Nazi legacy of their fatherland, the moods of Kiefer's paintings shift from the enraptured to the trampled.
		In the spirit of the Romantics, Kiefer attempts to create elegies for Germany's tragic history, and in so doing asks his viewers to bury their hatreds and their differences.
	www.artandculture.com /cgi-bin/WebObjects/ACLive.woa/wa/artist?id=64 (481 words)

	Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger. - Review - book review Art Bulletin, The - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anselm Kiefer and the Philosophy of Martin Heidegger.
		By then Kiefer had become, at least in part, the focus of national pride, as the high prices his work commanded internationally seemed a metonymy for West Germany's continuing economic miracle--a miracle from which some, perhaps naively, thought the East could eventually profit.
		Kiefer has thus been praised for his courageous attempt to recall wartime histories all too frequently repressed in Germany, even as he has been condemned for cavalierly reproducing pathos-laden scenes of wartime destruction without unequivocally condemning Germany's role in the conflict.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0422/is_3_82/ai_66304043 (1076 words)

	Anselm Kiefer: Art as Atonement
		Kiefer does not, in my opinion, consciously intend finally to end in nihilism, Yet his determination never for one moment to permit the horror of the Nazi regime to leave the foreground, leads him to create a pictorial world which is fundamentally without faith, hope or love.
		The answer is, in part at least, that Kiefer is driven by a kind of truncated, forlorn sense of hope, which nonetheless he cannot permit to surface because of his programmatic need to resurrect the horror of the Holocaust as if it were the first thing to be said about everything.
		Kiefer is a salient example of the way in which modern culture has generally lost its sense of sin and thus has fallen prey either to a Kieferesque self-consuming sense of irony and pessimism, on the one hand, or, on the other, to the shallow bourgeois denial of tragedy which Kiefer set himself to puncture.
	www.religion-online.org /showarticle.asp?title=941 (2941 words)

	Anselm Kiefer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anselm Kiefer is an artist who believes that art can strongly affect society.
		Kiefer does not believe in any specific religion or God, but he does believe in the power of religion in general.
		Kiefer's hope is that the lead funnel, reaching with lead wires toward the heavens and God, can use this power to transform this war-burned field into a better place.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/sKiefer.html (245 words)

	Anselm Kiefer - MSN Encarta
		Kiefer, Anselm, born in 1945, German artist, who investigates the nature and power of myth through the media of painting, sculpture, photography, and...
		Anselm Kiefer: Works on Paper, 1969 - 1993
		Anselm Kiefer: Die Sechste Posaune (The Sixth Trump)
	encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579707/Anselm_Kiefer.html (75 words)

	Gagosian Gallery - Anselm Kiefer
		Born in 1945 in Donauschingen, Germany, at the close of World War II, Anselm Kiefer studied art informally under Joseph Beuys at the Düsseldorf Academy in the early 1970s.
		Kiefer reflects upon and critiques the myths and chauvinism which eventually propelled the German Third Reich to power.
		Kiefer's work consistently balances the dual purposes of visually powerful imagery and intellectually critical analysis.
	www.gagosian.com /artists/anselm-kiefer (223 words)

	Anselm Kiefer White Cube London - Pressrelease
		Kiefer's elegiac oeuvre is based on a vast system of themes and references relating to the human condition, explored through a highly emotive use of material and medium.
		As corollary to this breadth of content, Kiefer employs an almost bewildering variety of materials including - in addition to the thick oil paint that is the base of all his large-scale works - dirt, lead, models, photographs, woodcuts, sand, straw and all manner of organic material.
		Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen.
	www.undo.net /cgi-bin/undo/pressrelease/pressrelease.pl?id=1119866842 (817 words)

	Anselm Kiefer
		Sabine Schütz setzt sich in ihrer Dissertation von 1998 an der Technischen Hochschule Aachen mit Anselm Kiefer und seinen Arbeiten von 1969 bis 1983 auseinander.
		Anselm Kiefer gehört zu jener ersten Generation, die frei von der Schuldverstrickung in die Nazizeit ist.
		Kiefer setzt nun mit seiner Kunst dem Triumph der Autonomie des Künstlers in der Nachkriegszeit ein Engagement entgegen, das gemäss Sabine Schütz frei sei von Eindeutigkeit und Einfachheit und sich deshalb nicht politisch missbrauchen lasse.
	www.cosmopolis.ch /cosmo8/Kiefer.htm (1044 words)

	Amazon.ca: Anselm Kiefer: Books: Charta,Anselm Kiefer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Avoiding a straightforward chronological survey, Arasse plunges directly into Kiefer's major themes and the ways they reflect the artist's subtly evolving perspectives on German history, the role of the artist, and the meaning of life.
		Arasse illuminates Kiefer's use of Jewish kabbalistic symbolism, his relationship to philosophers and writers from Nietzsche to Celan, and the rich trove of metaphor to be found in his use of lead, straw, books, and images of railroad tracks and artists' palettes.
		Kiefer is one of the most prodigious and poetic artists of our time.
	www.amazon.ca /Anselm-Kiefer-Charta/dp/8881581302 (580 words)

	UBS - Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Anselm Kiefer is widely regarded as one of the most significant and pertinent artists working today.
		Organized by the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth and presented by UBS, Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth is the first American survey of the artist's work in almost two decades and includes more than 60 major paintings, books, and sculptures created between 1969 and the present.
		Anselm Kiefer: Heaven and Earth features a number of early works from the artist’s private collection, as well as key paintings from private and public collections in Europe and the United States.
	www.ubs.com /1/e/about/sponsor/culture/anselm.html (232 words)

	The Broad Art Foundation - The Collection - Anselm Kiefer
		Of the younger German painters to emerge in recent decades, the one who has made the greatest impression on international audiences, and on Americans in particular, is Anselm Kiefer.
		Born at the close of World War II, Kiefer reflects upon and critiques the myths and chauvinism, which eventually propelled the German Third Reich to power.
		Eternal fires burn along the wall as if in memory of the individuals, but the lower edge of the painting is darkened in a manner that suggests it has been singed.
	www.broadartfoundation.org /collection/kiefer.html (269 words)

	Anselm Kiefer (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-14)
		Kiefer’s hope is that his treatment of the subject will place Germany’s mid-twentieth century experience into the realm of universal history and myth, as well as to allow his countrymen to come to terms with their direct or indirect involvement in this terrible period of German history.
		Kiefer’s use of lead in this work, and straw in many of his other works, is an homage to his teacher, German conceptual artist Joseph Beuys, who often used unusual everyday materials to make art, such as fat and carpet felt.
		At the end of a day during a one-man show by Kiefer, there is often a tiny pile of debris that needs to be swept away from under each work.
	www.albrightknox.org /ArtStart/Kiefer.html (721 words)

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