Come October 18, visitors who enter the Saint Louis Art Museum’s Sculpture Hall will be immersed in the work of Anselm Kiefer, the German artist whose 60-year career is captured, in part, by the new ...

The density of Anselm Kiefer’s art goes beyond the physical realm—it delves into symbolic meaning with his diverse processes and working methods, which span the alchemical, the artisanal, and the ...

A site-specific installation of five paintings in the museum’s Sculpture Hall is the centerpiece of “Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea,” which opens Oct. 18.

But that’s enough to convey the gist of Kiefer’s career and philosophy. And it’s also why there’s no need to know a lot about the artist in order to appreciate him, his work and Wenders’ captivating ...

Anselm Kiefer’s seven-ton “Breaking of the Vessels” is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of German history. It’s a shocking thing to come across in an art museum. Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of ...

“Nigredo,” Anselm Kiefer’s 1984 work in oil, acrylic, emulsion, shellac and straw on a photograph, mounted on canvas with woodcut, will be featured at the St. Louis Art Museum’s exhibition “Anselm ...

An art documentary by Wim Wenders steps inside the work of a man who says his art is about ‘the open wound of German history’ Born two months before the Nazis surrendered, celebrated German artist ...

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 ...