Anselm Kiefer
Artist
Notable Achievement
Neo-expressionist painter
Biography
Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. 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 horrors of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.
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Birthday Date
Anselm Kiefer was born on March 8