Anselm Kiefer

Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean, responsible for exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. She teaches at the University of Oxford, V&A and SOAS, London. Previously, she was a curator at Tate Modern, London and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. She holds a PhD in art history from Bonn University and also studied at Keio University, Tokyo. Richard Calvocoressi is an art historian and curator. He was an Assistant Keeper at the Tate Gallery, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Director of the Henry Moore Foundation. His publications include Anselm Kiefer: Morgenthau Plan (2013), Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone (2013, with Martin Harrison), and Georg Baselitz (2021). Harriet Häußler holds a PhD in art history from the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. Since 2009, she has been teaching and publishing widely about the art market and art of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has authored numerous books and articles, including her thesis Anselm Kiefer: Die Himmelspaläste (2004). Antonia Hoerschelmann studied art history, archaeology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Since 1992, she has been the Curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. In 2016, she curated the first major exhibition dedicated to Anselm Kiefer’s woodblock prints, at Albertina. Liz Rideal is an artist and writer living in London. Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, her publications include books on self-portraiture, portraiture and a best-seller, How to Read Paintings (2014). Rideal has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Europe and America with three solo shows in New York. Lisa Saltzman is a professor of History of Art and the inaugural Emily Rauh Pulitzer ’55 Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is a specialist in post-war and contemporary art. Educated at Princeton and Harvard, she has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Clark Art Institute and Guggenheim Foundation. Sabine Schütz, PhD is an art historian and art critic (AICA), focusing on modern and contemporary art. She has done curatorial work at various German museums and taught art theory and art history at the University of Cologne. An van Camp is the Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean. Most recently, she curated Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings (Oxford, 2024) and co-curated Young Rembrandt (Leiden/Oxford, 2019–20). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Print Quarterly and Master Drawings. Christian Weikop is Professor of Modern and Contemporary German Art at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on 20th-century German art, including publications on Anselm Kiefer for international art institutions. He works closely with the Atelier Anselm Kiefer in Paris.

• DIRECTOR’S FOREWORD 9Alexander SturgisINTRODUCTION 10Lena FritschIN FOCUS1FÜR JEAN GENET, 1969 16Christian Weikop2BESETZUNG (OCCUPATION), 1969–2016 26Christian Weikop3HEROISCHE SINNBILDER, 1970 30Christian Weikop4ICH – DU, 1971 34Lena Fritsch5LANDSCHAFT BEI BUCHEN, 1971 38Lena Fritsch6WALD, 1973/74 40Lena Fritsch7DIE ETSCH, MID-1970S 44Lena Fritsch8V ON OSCAR WILDE FÜR JULIA, 1973 47Liz Rideal9T HE DREAM KING, 1974 51Liz Rideal10LANDSCHAFT MIT KOPF, 1973 55Sabine Schütz11UNTITLED (U-BOAT), 1973 58Lena Fritsch12SOL INVICTUS HELIOGABAL, 1974 61Lena Fritsch13/14NASCITA DI PITTURA (THE BIRTH OF PAINTING ) / 64UNTITLED, 1974Lena Fritsch15HOW TO PAINT NUDES, 1974 70Lena Fritsch16STILL LIFE IS EXCITING, 1974 72Lena Fritsch17DAS DEUTSCHE VOLKSGESICHT. 76KOHLE FÜR 2000 JAHRE, 1974Sabine Schütz18UNTITLED, 1974 94Lena Fritsch19AUSBRENNEN DES LANDKREISES BUCHEN, 951974Lena Fritsch20HELIOGABAL, 1974-75 110Lena Fritsch21/22STEFAN!, 1975 / STEFAN II, 1975 11323DIE KUNST GEHT KNAPP NICHT UNTER, 1975 118Lena Fritsch24BRÜNHILDES TOD, 1976 121Liz Rideal25UNTERNEHMEN TRAPPENFANG, 1976 124Lisa Saltzman26W EGE DER WELTWEISHEIT, 1977 128Antonia Hoerschelmann27W EGE DER WELTWEISHEIT: GOTTFRIED KELLER, 1977 132An Van Camp28W EGE DER WELTWEISHEIT: GOTTFRIED KELLER, 1977 145An van Camp29ENGEL MIT PALETTE, 1977-78 152Lisa Saltzman30VON SCHLIEFFEN, 1977 156Lena Fritsch31FÜR JULIA, 1977-78 158Lena Fritsch32PALETTE MIT FLÜGELN, 1978 162Harriet Häußler33BRÜNHILDE GRANE, 1978 165Lena Fritsch34YGGDRASIL, 1978 168Harriet Häußler35RITT AN DIE WEICHSEL, 1980-81 172Lena Fritsch36NOCH IST POLEN NICHT VERLOREN, 1981 174Lena Fritsch37BRÜNHILDE, 1981 178Lena Fritsch38URD, WERDANDI, SKULD (DIE NORNEN), 1981 181Lena Fritsch39MARGARETHE-SULAMIT, 1981 184Lena Fritsch40ET LA TERRE TREMBLE ENCORE, 1981 188Lena Fritsch41DER RHEIN, 1982 191Antonia Hoerschelmann42INNENRAUM, 1982 195Richard Calvocoressi43/44DIE BLÄTTER FALLEN / UND IN DEN NÄCHTEN 198FÄLLT DIE SCHWERE ERDE, 2017–23Lena Fritsch45W ER JETZT KEIN HAUS HAT, 2023 199Lena FritschCONTRIBUTORS 210CHRONOLOGY 212Stephanie Biron

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