Anselm Kiefer: Painting, Woodcuts, Sculpture, Books

April 10 – July 8, 2001

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945) is perhaps best known for majestic paintings from the 1980s and early 1990s that evoked Germany's contested history through charred landscapes and mythic symbolism. 

This exhibition, drawn from the Manilow collection, used a few choice works to call attention to other aspects of Kiefer's practice. Two works signaled the artist's most recent preoccupations: Katarina (1999) from a grand series of sculptures about women of antiquity, and the monumental, meditative Lichtfalle (1999), one of several recent celestial-themed paintings. The exhibition also included several large-scale, unique woodcuts and artist's books, media that have long been crucial to Kiefer's practice.