Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen. He pursued his art studies at the academies in Freiburg, in Karlsruhe with Horst Antes and Joseph Beuys in Düsseldorf. His monumental material paintings often assume a critical role towards German history and place him among pre-eminent exponents of contemporary art.Exhibitions and Distinctions (Selection)
2008
Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
2007
Retrospective at Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao and Grand Palais in Paris. Large wall-painting for the Louvre, Paris
2005
German Federal Cross of Merit. Order of Merit for Servies rendered to the Republic of Austria
2002
Fondation Beyeler, Riehen (Switzerland)
1999
Praemium Imperiale Award,Tokyo
1991
National Gallery, Berlin. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Travelling exhibition at Kunsthalle Tübingen, Kunstverein München and Kunsthaus Zürich
1990
Emperor’s Ring of the City of Goslar
1987
Art Institute of Chicago
1984
Large travelling exhibition at Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and Israel Museum, Jerusalem
1981
Museum Folkwang, Essen
1980
German Pavillon at Venice Biennale (with Georg Baselitz)
1979
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
1978
Kunsthalle Bern
Literature (Selection)
Anselm Kiefer—Maria durch ein Dornwald ging, ed. by Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, 2009
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher, ed. by Heiner Bastian, Munich, 2008
Anselm Kiefer—Wege der Weltweisheit/ Die Frauen der Revolution, ed. by Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, 2007
Anselm Kiefer, ed. by Kunsthalle Würth, Schwäbisch Hall, 2004
Anselm Kiefer, Daniel Arasse, London, 2001
Anselm Kiefer—Bücher 1969-90, ed. by Götz Adriani, Stuttgart, 1990