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Anselm Kiefer

January 2026

  • Tracey Emin like I Vanished and Reappeared, 2024 Signed, dated and titled by the artist Unique Monotype Artwork: 139 x 107.5 cm Frame: 149 x 117 x 50 cm (TE83) Photo: Copyright The Artist Courtesy of Carl Freedman Gallery

    Crossing into Darkness review – Tracey Emin takes her heroes on a descent to the gates of hell

    Munch, Bourgeois, Gormley and Baselitz go shoulder to shoulder with up-and-coming artists in an exhibition that revels in its stygian gloom

June 2025

  • Anselm Kiefer, Nevermore, 2014.

    Kiefer/Van Gogh review – Anselm puts the nightmare into Vincent’s sunflower visions

    The Dutch artist looks like a prophet of the Holocaust when viewed through the 80-year-old German painter’s dark lens in this startling show, which makes you see how Van Gogh might have painted modern horrors

March 2025

  • Anselm Kiefer’s The Starry Night, 2019.

    Anselm Kiefer review – creative giant crushed under Van Gogh’s starry might

    This alienating exhibition makes the German artist look like a kitsch cabaret version of the Dutch master – the comparison is catastrophic for Kiefer

February 2025

  • Ghostly and quiet … Kiefer’s Für Jean Genet (For Jean Genet), 1969. Bound watercolour on paper, graphite, original photographs, hair and canvas strips on cardboard (24 pages), 67 x 51 x 4 cm Hall Collection. Courtesy of the Hall Art Foundation. © Anselm Kiefer

    Anselm Kiefer: Early Works review – his Nazi salute dominates a show haunted by horrors

    From shocking images of him Sieg Heil-ing to a woodland watercolour haunted by the atrocities of war, the German artist confronts his homeland’s fascist past – and it’s never felt so relevant

February 2024

  • From left: Kirk Douglas as Vincent van Gogh in Vincente Minnelli's ‘unabashedly gorgeous' Lust For Life (1956); ‘raw, restless' Jeffrey Wright in the title role in Julian Schnabel's Basquiat (1996); the Swedish artist and mystic Hilma af Klint in Halina Ryschka's documentary Beyond the Visible (2019).

    Guy Lodge's streaming and DVDs
    Streaming: the best films about artists

    From Wim Wenders’ recent Anselm Kiefer documentary to Kirk Douglas’s tortured Van Gogh and Derek Jarman’s erotic ode to Caravaggio, cinema loves a brush with genius

December 2023

  • Anselm (2023) Directed by Wim Wenders.

    Anselm review – Wim Wenders’s immersive documentary is a treat for art lovers

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    Parts of Anselm Kiefer sculpture stolen from French warehouse

June 2023

  • ‘It was not a catastrophe’ … Anselm Kiefer.

    ‘Our house was bombed the night I was born’: Anselm Kiefer on the nightmares he can’t escape

    The great German artist has tried again and again to read James Joyce’s twisted novel Finnegans Wake. His latest show takes inspiration from that book – and from a childhood making toys from the rubble of his family home

May 2023

  • Film still: Anselm Le Bruit du Temps (2023), directed by Wim Wenders

    Anselm review – Wim Wenders’ reverent 3D portrait of artist Anselm Kiefer

    The director’s serious examination of the German artist’s life and work has an architectural quality as it moves around some monumental art – and studios

April 2023

  • Sophie Fiennes directs her brother Ralph on the set of Four Quartets

    ‘Extremely precarious’: Sophie Fiennes on documentary film-making in the UK

    Exclusive: Directors struggle to fund work because of risk-averse commissioners and lack of resources, she says

November 2021

  • Watercolours from the series Picket by Ekaterina Muromtseva, in Diversity United at the New Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow.

    From Olafur Eliasson to Gerhard Richter: the art show aiming to unite Europe

    Diversity United is a travelling exhibition featuring work by 100 living artists from 34 countries – seeing this monument to liberal values moved our writer to tears

September 2020

  • The delayed RA Summer (Winter) Exhibition 2020, Royal Academy, Piccadilly, London. Head II by Tim Shaw

    Royal Academy Summer Exhibition review – as if the pandemic never happened

    Amid a sea of irrelevant doodling, only the BLM room and apocalyptic works by Tracey Emin and Anselm Kiefer are in tune with our troubled times

December 2019

  • Milk ladies by Murdo MacLeod

    Best culture 2019
    The faces of 2019 – in pictures

    Dick and Dom on the decks, Skin from Skunk Anansie, Ben Stokes in the Lords pavilion, Dafne Keen from Her Dark Materials … Guardian photographers look back at their portraits of the year
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November 2019

  • Anselm Kiefer at White Cube Bermondsey, London.

    Anselm Kiefer: 'When I make a truly great painting, then I feel real'

    Fifty years ago he outraged his fellow Germans with Nazi salutes. Now, at 74, the artist’s epic canvases are exploring a different kind of darkness
  • The boundless tangle of nature, with a real axe … from Kiefer’s series Der Gordische Knoten.

    Anselm Kiefer review – terrifying odyssey through a cursed world

    In monumental, vertiginous landscapes encrusted with mud and twigs and bloody axes, Kiefer confronts the mystery of existence and the enduring horror of the Holocaust
  • Heel boy … The Wounded Achilles by Fillippo Albacini, in Troy: Myth and Reality.

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    The most reviled king ever and the greatest artist alive – the week in art

    Anselm Kiefer teeters on the edge of reality, Nan Goldin tests drugs and memory, and the visions of the weeping icon revealed

June 2019

  • Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition 2019<br>Handout photo issued by the Royal Academy of guests viewing an installation as part of the Summer Exhibition 2019 which runs from 10th June to August 12th at the Royal Academy of Arts in London. PRESS ASSOCIATION Photo. Picture date: Saturday June 1, 2019. Photo credit should read: David Parry/PA Wire NOTE TO EDITORS: This handout photo may only be used in for editorial reporting purposes for the contemporaneous illustration of events, things or the people in the image or facts mentioned in the caption. Reuse of the picture may require further permission from the copyright holder.

    Summer Exhibition review – a moronic monument to British mediocrity

    Obvious ideas get third-rate treatment as this life-draining spectacle showcases the artists of a nation adrift

December 2018

  • Complex … Siobhán Hapaska’s Love (2016).

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    Kid-friendly pirates and the sublime side of Anselm Kiefer – the week in art

    Snakeskins hit Southampton, Bethlehem comes to Brussels and Anselm Kiefer shows why he’s the greatest artist alive

September 2018

  • Clockwise from left... Big Dance Theater: 17c; Faces Places; Octavian; Swan Lake; Future Knowledge: Andy Owen’s Whole Milk

    Culture highlights of the week
    What to see this week in the UK

    From Faces Places to Octavian, here’s our pick of the best films, concerts, exhibitions, theatre and dance over the next seven days

December 2016

  • Ghostbusters - 2016<br>No Merchandising. Editorial Use Only. No Book Cover Usage. Mandatory Credit: Photo by Columbia Pictures/Feigco Ent/REX/Shutterstock (5885563z) Melissa McCarthy, Kate Mckinnon, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones Ghostbusters - 2016 Director: Paul Feig Columbia Pictures/Feigco Entertainment USA Scene Still Action/Comedy S.O.S Fantômes

    Best culture 2016
    Beyoncé to Black Mirror; the culture that defines 2016

    How better to make sense of this turbulent year than through the art and literature it has produced? Our critics choose the works that sum up the last 12 months
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