Anselm Kiefer Wooden Room

A beginner s guide by tom jeffreys published 25 september 2014.

Anselm kiefer wooden room.

Anselm kiefer often dedicates his works to intriguing figures of the past be they poets or philosophers. This piece is one of a number of works emerging from kiefer s ongoing exploration of the russian futurist avant garde writer theorist and absurdist velimir khlebnikov 1885 1922. His works incorporate materials such as straw ash clay lead and shellac the poems of paul celan have played a role in developing kiefer s themes of german history and the horror of the holocaust as have the spiritual concepts of kabbalah. Anselm kiefer s monumental often confrontational canvases were groundbreaking at a time when painting was considered all but dead as a medium.

Wooden room is part of a series of monumental paintings kiefer made while studying under the artist joseph beuys in düsseldorf. Anselm kiefer wooden room 1972 not on view. Painted on six strips of burlap sewn together kiefer creates a textured wooden room receding sharply into space. No one beyond the royal academy s curatorial team knows exactly what s going on display at next month s anselm kiefer exhibition yet it is already being described as a blockbuster the ra is devoting all of its galleries to the german artist placing him alongside the likes of anish kapoor and david hockney whose work also occupied every room at the london institution during their.

Wooden room by anselm kiefer. The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of medieval architecture with tapers burning at intervals along the wall. German painter sculptor photographer and installation artist. Rendered in oil paint and charcoal on burlap the deeply recessed space kiefer s attic studio in a converted schoolhouse seems as if it could be entered by the viewer.

The barren space leaves the existence of the. He studied with peter dreher and horst antes end of the 1960s. In which anselm kiefer takes two steps out from the muck. March 8 1945 donaueschingen baden wurttemburg germany.

This week the ra welcomes the works of german artist anselm kiefer. The painting depicts a cavernous empty wooden room reminiscent of. Wooden room by anselm kiefer. The work recalls both hunting lodge and a memorial hall.

From intimate watercolours and artist s books to vast paintings complex sculpture and installations on a monumental scale. The artist is most known for his subject matter dealing with german history and myth particularly as it relates to the holocaust.