Anselm Kiefer Quotes


Ruins, for me, are the beginning. With the debris, you can construct new ideas. They are symbols of a beginning.


Citations

Sooke, Alastair. "Anselm Kiefer interview: 'Ruins are the beginning'." The Telegraph, 19 Sept. 2014.

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Anselm Kiefer
Anselm Kiefer
  • Born: March 8, 1945
  • Nationality: German, Austrian
  • Profession: Artist

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. 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.