Anselm Kiefer Wooden Room

The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of medieval architecture with tapers burning at intervals along the wall.

Anselm kiefer wooden room.

March 8 1945 donaueschingen baden wurttemburg germany. Wooden room by anselm kiefer. The artist is most known for his subject matter dealing with german history and myth particularly as it relates to the holocaust. Anselm kiefer born 8 march 1945 is a german painter and sculptor.

Anselm kiefer gerhard richter wooden room museum of modern art art museum moma vincent van gogh oeuvre d art art day. In deutschlands geisteshelden 1973 kiefer superimposes historical meaning on a setting of personal significance his former studio in a rural schoolhouse. Anselm kiefer s monumental often confrontational canvases were groundbreaking at a time when painting was considered all but dead as a medium. This piece is one of a number of works emerging from kiefer s ongoing exploration of the russian futurist avant garde writer theorist and absurdist velimir khlebnikov 1885 1922.

The barren space leaves the existence of the. A beginner s guide by tom jeffreys published 25 september 2014. Anselm kiefer wooden room 1972 not on view. The work recalls both hunting lodge and a memorial hall.

In which anselm kiefer takes two steps out from the muck. Rendered in oil paint and charcoal on burlap the deeply recessed space kiefer s attic studio in a converted schoolhouse seems as if it could be entered by the viewer. His works incorporate materials such as straw ash clay lead and shellac the poems of paul celan have played a role in developing kiefer s themes of german history and the horror of the holocaust as have the spiritual concepts of kabbalah. He studied with peter dreher and horst antes end of the 1960s.

No one beyond the royal academy s curatorial team knows exactly what s going on display at next month s anselm kiefer exhibition yet it is already being described as a blockbuster the ra is devoting all of its galleries to the german artist placing him alongside the likes of anish kapoor and david hockney whose work also occupied every room at the london institution during their. The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of. Wooden room is part of a series of monumental paintings kiefer made while studying under the artist joseph beuys in düsseldorf. German painter sculptor photographer and installation artist.

This week the ra welcomes the works of german artist anselm kiefer. Painted on six strips of burlap sewn together kiefer creates a textured wooden room receding sharply into space.