Anselm Kiefer (b.1945)
Anselm Kiefer (b.1945)

Des Malers Atelier

细节
Anselm Kiefer (b.1945)
Des Malers Atelier
titled 'Des Malers Atelier' (lower right)
acrylic, watercolor and gouache on paper
19¾ x 25 in. (50 x 61 cm.)
Executed circa 1980-1981
来源
Sonnabend, New York

拍品专文

The early 1980s were a key period in Anselm Kiefer's career, marking the beginning of his appreciation as one of the most important artists of his generation. Representing Germany in the 39th Venice Biennale in 1980, Kiefer exhibited a controversial series of works that contronted Germany's past, including Germany's Spiritual Heroes (1973). The paintings generally consisted of wooded interior spaces, inhabited by allegorical objects, such as bursts of flame, swords or snakes. The recessed space of Des Malers Atelier relate it to that landmark series of interior paintings, in which Kiefer combines with a series of swirling gestural forms that