Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kieferis a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys and Peter Dreher during the 1970s. 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 horror of the Holocaust, as have the spiritual concepts of Kabbalah...
NationalityGerman
ProfessionPainter
Date of Birth8 March 1945
CountryGermany
art entertainment difficult
Art is difficult. Its not entertainment.
art giving-up believe
I believe art has to take responsibility but it should not give up being art.
art skills technique
As an artist you have to find something that deeply interests you. It's not enough to make art that is about art, to look at Matisse and Picasso and say, how can I paint like them? You have to be obsessed by something that can't come out in any other way, then the other things - the skill and technique - will follow.
art together life-is
Life is an illusion. I am held together in the nothingness by art.