Anselm Kiefer Hon RA (b. 1945)
Anselm Kiefer Hon RA (b. 1945)
Anselm Kiefer was born in Donaueschingen, Germany in 1945 and has lived and worked in France since 1993. He has exhibited widely, including solo shows at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford (2025); Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy (2024); LaM, Lille, France (2023–24); Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar, Netherlands (2023–24); Palazzo Ducale, Venice, Italy (2022); Grand Palais Éphémère, Paris (2021); Franz Marc Museum, Kochel, Germany (2020); Couvent de La Tourette, Lyon, France (2019); Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2019); The State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia (2017); Albertina Museum, Vienna (2016); Centre Pompidou, Paris (2015); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2011); Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (2010); Grand Palais, Paris (2007); Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Spain (2007); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California (2006); Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas (2005); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (1987). In 2023, Kiefer was awarded the Antonio Feltrinelli International Prize for the Arts, as well as being awarded the prestigious Prize for Understanding and Tolerance in 2019 by the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and in 2017 he was awarded the J. Paul Getty Medal. In 2007 Kiefer became the first artist since Georges Braque 50 years earlier to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre, Paris. In 2009 he created an opera, Am Anfang, to mark the 20th anniversary of the Opéra National de Paris. In November 2020, Kiefer unveiled a new series of work for the Panthéon in Paris, including a permanent installation comprised of six vitrines. Together with a composition by the French contemporary composer Pascal Dusapin, it forms an ensemble of new works commissioned by President Emmanuel Macron. This marks the first time since 1924 that such a commission has been effectuated for the Panthéon.
In 2014, the Royal Academy of Arts in London presented the first retrospective of Kiefer’s work to be held in the UK. In 2015, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France and the Centre Pompidou in Paris showed major retrospectives of his artist books, paintings and installations.
Profile
Honorary RA
Born: 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany
Nationality: German
Elected Hon RA: 29 May 1996
Gender: Male
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Preferred media: Painting, Sculpture, Installation art, and Artists' books
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Gallery
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Anselm Kiefer, Lichtung (Clearing), 2015.
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Anselm Kiefer, Die Erdzeitalter (Ages of the World), 2014.
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Anselm Kiefer, hortus conclusus, 2014.
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Anselm Kiefer, Unternehmen "Seelöwe", (Operation "Sea lion"), 1975.
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Selected CV
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Selected solo exhibitions
2017 Provocations: Anselm Kiefer at the Met Breuer, Met Breuer, New York
Anselm Kiefer: Bilder, Galerie Bastian, Berlin
Kiefer Rodin, Musée Rodin, Paris, travelling to the Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia
Anselm Kiefer-Ausflug, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Anselm Kiefer: Transition from Cool to Warm, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Anselm Kiefer: For Velimir Khlebnikov- Fates of Nations, State Hermitage Museum, St Petersburg
2016 Anselm Kiefer: Die Welt- ein Buch, Museum der bildenden Künste, Leipzig
Regeneration Series: Anselm Kiefer from the Hall Collection, NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale
Anselm Kiefer: Walhalla, White Cube, London
Anselm Kiefer: The Woodcuts, Albertina Museum, Vienna
2015 Anselm Kiefer: Paintings, Sculpture & Installation, Margulies Collection at the Warehouse, Miami
Anselm Kiefer, l’alchimie du livre, Bibliothèques Nationale de France, Paris
Anselm Kiefer. Im Gewitter der Rosen, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Artist Rooms: Anselm Kiefer, Tullie House Museum & Art Gallery, Carlisle
Anselm Kiefer. Paintings, White Cube, São Paulo
Anselm Kiefer. Works from the Grothe Collection, Serlachius Museum Gösta, Mänttä, Finland
Anselm Kiefer, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
2014 Anselm Kiefer, Royal Academy of Arts, London
2013 Anselm Kiefer, Morgenthau Plan, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2011 Kiefer & Rembrandt, Rijksmuseum Amsterdam
Anselm Kiefer, Shevirat Hakelim, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
Anselm Kiefer, Il Mistero delle Cattedrali, White Cube, London
2009 From the Met to the Met, Anselm Kiefer and Wagner’s Ring, GalleryMet Metropolitan Opera Lincoln Center, New York
2007 Anselm Kiefer, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain
2005 Anselm Kiefer, Heaven and Earth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
1998 Anselm Kiefer, Works on Paper, 1969 – 1993, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1993 Anselm Kiefer, Melancholia, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo
1991 Anselm Kiefer, Neue Nationalgalerie Berlin, Berlin -
Selected monographs
2015 Anselm Kiefer – Im Gewitter der Rosen, Orhan Pamuk (Salzburg: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac)
Anselm Kiefer, L’alchemie du livre, Marie Minssieux-Chamonard, Dominique Baqué, Jean-Luc Nancy and Christoph Ransmayr (Paris: Bibliothèque Nationale de France/Editions du Regard)
Anselm Kiefer, Jean-Michel Bouhours, Aeneas Bastian, Matthew Biro, Hadrien Laroche, Doïna Lemny, Marc-Alain Ouaknin, Lisa Saltzman. Anselm Kiefer (Paris: Centre Pompidou) Anselm Kiefer – Entre mythe et concept, Dominqué Baqué (Paris: Editions du Regard)
2014 Anselm Kiefer, Richard Davey, Kathleen Soriano and Christian Weikop (London: Royal Academy of the Arts)
Anselm Kiefer – Beyond Landscape, Janne Sirén (ed.), Bill Berkson, Diane Christian, Douglas Dreishpoon, David Felder, Simon Glass, Andreas Huyssen, Joe Martin Lin-Hill (Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery)
2013 Anselm Kiefer, Matthew Biro, London: Phaidon Press
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