Description
Unlike almost another up to date German artist, Anselm Kiefer (born 1945) has rendered the horrors of up to date history and created profound artistic endeavors with mythological, religious and philosophical themes, in subtle layers that alternately cover in addition to uncover one some other―that contain the knowledge of the inevitable transformation and dissolution of all matter, without delay monumental and material-related. These fundamental elements also inform his woodcuts. This catalogue, accompanying the retrospective of the similar name on the Albertina, Vienna, deals with these for the first time. More than 35 major works comprise a very powerful cycles and thematic groups and demonstrate their variety, from the earliest works in traditional book format and the fascinating large-format works titled Brunhilde: Grane, to the Ways of Worldly Wisdom: Arminius’s Battle and the Rhine woodcuts.