Anselm Kiefer is without question one of the great artists of the last half-century, provocatively exploring devastation, destruction and the “open wound of German history” through his massive ...

Almost everything about Anselm Kiefer’s art is monumental. The paintings are monumental, stretching up to 21 feet across and towering overhead, holding our attention hostage for an uncomfortably long ...

AMSTERDAM — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a century ...

All his life, the churn of history has spoken to 78-year-old Anselm Kiefer, who has responded with imposingly environmental, mythic and beautiful paintings and sculptures that get at something ...

Right now, a room in a stately Florentine palazzo is filled wall-to-wall with gleaming gold. But this isn’t yet another ornate private chapel patronized by a powerful mercantile family during the ...

The enduring thirst of gallery goers to be reminded yet again of the furious energy of Vincent van Gogh and the tragedy of ...

Thieves are enticed by the value of the raw material not the artwork itself, even though the latter is much higher. The painter and sculptor Anselm Kiefer comes to the award ceremony of the German ...