Anselm Kiefer Wooden Room

The barren space leaves the existence of the.

Anselm kiefer wooden room.

The work recalls both hunting lodge and a memorial hall. Anselm kiefer often dedicates his works to intriguing figures of the past be they poets or philosophers. In which anselm kiefer takes two steps out from the muck. 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.

Anselm kiefer born 8 march 1945 is a german painter and sculptor. 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. Wooden room is part of a series of monumental paintings kiefer made while studying under the artist joseph beuys in düsseldorf. Painted on six strips of burlap sewn together kiefer creates a textured wooden room receding sharply into space.

The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of. Anselm kiefer gerhard richter wooden room museum of modern art art museum moma vincent van gogh oeuvre d art art day. The artist is most known for his subject matter dealing with german history and myth particularly as it relates to the holocaust. Wooden room by anselm kiefer.

German painter sculptor photographer and installation artist. From intimate watercolours and artist s books to vast paintings complex sculpture and installations on a monumental scale. Anselm kiefer wooden room 1972 not on view. The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of medieval architecture with tapers burning at intervals along the wall.

Wooden room by anselm kiefer. He studied with peter dreher and horst antes end of the 1960s. This week the ra welcomes the works of german artist anselm kiefer. 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.

March 8 1945 donaueschingen baden wurttemburg germany. Anselm kiefer s monumental often confrontational canvases were groundbreaking at a time when painting was considered all but dead as a medium.