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- Anselm Kiefer
- Palette
- 1981
- AR00613
- Artist Rooms
![Urd Werdande Skuld [The Norns]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/AR00036.jpg)
- Anselm Kiefer
- Urd Werdande Skuld [The Norns]
- 1983
- AR00036
- Artist Rooms
- Anselm Kiefer
- Man under a Pyramid
- 1996
- AR00037
- Artist Rooms
![Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles [the dark light falling from the stars]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/AR00041.jpg)
- Anselm Kiefer
- Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles [the dark light falling from the stars]
- 1999
- AR00041
- Artist Rooms
![Palmsonntag [Palm Sunday]](http://www.nationalgalleries.org/media/4/collection/AR00038.jpg)
- Anselm Kiefer
- Palmsonntag [Palm Sunday]
- 2006
- AR00038
- Artist Rooms
Anselm Kiefer (German, born 1945)
The German artist Anselm Kiefer gained prominence in 1969 with a series of photographs called 'Occupations', in which he was pictured giving the Nazi salute in various locations in Europe. This was Kiefer's first attempt to deal with Germany's recent cultural and political history, an ongoing theme in his work. From the 1980s the artist also began to explore other histories, taking nordic mythology, literary and biblical themes and Jewish mysticism as subjects. Kiefer's heavily textured, large-scale artworks (including books as well as paintings) are created with unusual but symbolic materials, such as lead, straw, cloth and tar.
