Obrazy autora Anselm Kiefer: 41 nejznámějších díel podle pohledu galerie

Athanor

In the vast, haunting expanse of Anselm Kiefer’s Athanor, viewers are invited into a liminal space where history and myth collide. Created between 1983 and 1984, this monumental work serves as a profound meditation on the layers of time, much like the alchemical furnace from which it draws its name. The painting presents an architectural dreamscape—a corridor of arched doorways and shadowed halls that feels simultaneously ancient and immediate. As…

Seraphim

The presence of Seraphim commands the space it occupies, a monumental work by Anselm Kiefer that breathes with a heavy, historical weight. Created between 1983 and 1984, this piece emerges from a period of intense creative exploration for the artist. It exists as a vital component of Kiefer's Angel series, a sequence of works that grapple with the intersection of the celestial and the terrestrial. The sheer scale of the…

Böhmen liegt am Meer (Bohemia Lies by the Sea)

The work presents a large-scale composition spanning 191 x 561 cm. It is composed of two distinct horizontal sections that create a sense of depth across the immense surface. The texture is heavy and dense, characterized by thick impasto layers that rise from the burlap substrate. These layers of oil, emulsion, shellac, charcoal, and powdered paint create a three-dimensional topography. The surface appears fragmented and irregular, with lines that lack…

Only with Wind, Time, and Sound

Anselm Kiefer’s 1997 work, Only with Wind, Time, and Sound, emerges from a series of large-format explorations into ancient structures. The composition is dominated by a central, triangular form topped with a pyramid, a shape that suggests a threshold between the terrestrial and the celestial. This geometry is not clean or mathematical; instead, it is built from a heavy, tactile accumulation of materials. Rocks and bricks form the apex, lending…

Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe

In the profound and visceral world of Anselm Kiefer, Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe emerges as a monumental testament to the tension between the material earth and the ethereal heavens. This extraordinary work, created in 1986, serves as a philosophical investigation into the very possibility of transcendence. At first glance, the viewer is confronted by a weathered, metallic propeller, its three blades heavy with the weight of lead. This central object acts…

The Fertile Crescent

In the vast, sweeping expanse of Anselm Kiefer’s The Fertile Crescent, viewers are invited into a world where the boundaries between architecture, humanity, and nature dissolve into a singular, breathtaking vision. Spanning an incredible 762 x 330 cm, this mixed-media masterpiece commands the space it inhabits, acting less like a mere painting and more like a window into a sprawling, mythic landscape. The composition is anchored by a formidable structure,…

Jerusalem

Your Golden Hair, Margarete

This work’s title comes from "Death Fugue" by the Romanian-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan (1920–1970). Widely read in postwar Germany, the poem is set in a concentration camp and narrated by the Jewish inmates, who suffer under the camp’s blue-eyed commandant. Singing "your golden hair, Margarete / your ashen hair, Shulamith," they contrast German womanhood, personified by Margarete, and Jewish womanhood (Shulamith was King Solomon’s dark-haired beloved in…

Morgenthau Plan

Throughout his nearly fifty-year career, Kiefer has never been afraid to wrestle with history. His art—particularly in its worked and layered surfaces weathered by time and nature—is a visceral and poetic consideration of the past as a means to understand our collective present and, by implication, our future. This monumental work references a plan, devised by U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau during World War II, to destroy Germany’s…

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