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Artists›Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer

1945

WA-00002940

Painting

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

Works in Collection

187

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

70%

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ170344

MoMA

Field Verification (4 fields)

1 cross-verified · 3 single-source

Birth yearArtsy· 92%✓
NationalityWikidata + Artsy· 92%
BiographyGallery Gagosian + Gallery Generic· 80%
LocationWikidata + Gallery Generic· 80%

Source Registry (7)

White-Cubehttps://whitecube.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/anselm-kiefer
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/anselm-kiefer
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
James-Cohanhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/anselm-kiefer
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Gagosianhttps://gagosian.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Thaddaeus-Ropachttps://ropac.net/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/3086
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

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Movement

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Medium

Painting

Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Tate The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Canonical record

Artworks (76)

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Morgenthau Plan

2012 · Acrylic, emulsion, oil, and shellac on inkjet prints mounted on canvas

Overall: 129 15/16 × 224 7/16 × 3 1/8 in. (330 × 570.1 × 7.9 cm) 3 panels, each: 129 15/16 × 74 13/16 × 3 1/8 in. (330 × 190 × 8 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Hortus philosophorum

2010 · Photograph, black and white, on paper with paint and chalk

support: 1852 x 2460 mm

Tate

St John’s Lodge

2007 · Photograph, black and white, on paper with paint

support: 1230 x 1300 mm

Tate

Untitled

2007 · Photograph, black and white, on papers with paint

support: 1400 x 635 mm

Tate

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Johannisnacht gefallene Bilder. The secret life of plants

2006 · Photograph, black and white, on papers with paint

support: 1760 x 1390 mm

Tate

Untitled

2006 · Photograph, black and white, on paper with paint

support: 635 x 1260 mm

Tate

Falling Stars

2006 · Photograph, black and white, on papers

support: 1155 x 1250 mm

Tate

Palm Sunday

2006 · Palm tree and 40 works on fibreboard with clay, paint, shellac, adhesive, metal, palm fronds, fabric and paper

Overall display dimensions variable

Tate

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Steigend, Sinke Nieder

2003 · Synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, and synthetic hair on cut-and-pasted gelatin silver prints

48 x 39" (121.9 x 99.1 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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A.E.I.O.U. from the Museum in Progress project TransAct 2 - Linguistic Fields

2002 · Lithograph, offset printed

sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Die Ungeborenen

2002 · Illustrated book with eighteen digital prints with ash and lead collage

Page: 11 15/16 x 9 1/8" (30.4 x 23.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom

2000 · Oil paint, shellac resin, wood, metal string and screws on canvas

support: 3803 x 2805 x 54 mm

Tate

Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles

1999 · Acrylic paint, oil paint, shellac, earth, sand, wood, paper and glass on 2 canvases, lead, iron, books and other materia

support: 4700 x 4000 mm object: 3400 x 1650 x 1100 mm

Tate

Man under a Pyramid

1996 · Emulsion, acrylic paint, shellac and ash on 2 canvases

support: 2815 x 5030 x 65 mm support: 730 x 5035 x 95 mm

Tate

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Böhmen liegt am Meer (Bohemia Lies by the Sea)

1996 · Oil, emulsion, shellac, charcoal, and powdered paint on burlap

75 1/4 in. × 18 ft. 5 in. (191.1 × 561.3 cm) Other (left panel component a): 75 1/4 in. × 9 ft. 2 1/2 in. (226.1 × 280.7 cm) Other (right panel component b): 75 1/4 in. × 9 ft. 2 1/2 in. (226.1 × 280.7 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

20 Years of Solitude

1993 · White gouache on gelatin silver prints, cut torn and tipped together

Sight: 82 × 57.7 cm (32 5/16 × 22 3/4 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Heavy Water

1991 · 9-page book of silver leaf and paint on gelatin silver prints, bound with lead covers

Max: 70.1 × 50 cm (27 5/8 × 19 11/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

A.D.

1989 · Chalk and entrails on treated lead

7' 11 1/8" x 51 7/8" x 1 5/8" (243.1 x 131.8 x 4.2 cm) including steel frame

Museum of Modern Art

Lilith

1987 · Oil paint, ash and copper wire on canvas

support: 3815 x 5612 x 500 mm support, each: 3815 x 2806 x 50 mm

Tate

Splitting I and II

1986 · Two-volume book of clay, photographs, synthetic polymer paint, glass, porcelain, and copper wire on board, bound with canvas, each on a steel lectern designed by the artist

Volume I 27 3/4 x 19 3/4 x 4 3/4" (70.4 x 50.2 x 12.2 cm), volume II 28 x 20 x 3 1/2" (71 x 50.8 x 8.9 cm), lecterns, each 41 x 43 5/8 x 26 1/2" (104 x 110.1 x 67.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Emanation

1985 · Shellac and crayon on cut, torn, and pasted gelatin silver prints

30 × 26 in. (76.2 × 66 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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Yggdrasil

1985 · Gouache and shellac on torn and pasted gelatin silver prints

25 × 23 3/4 in. (63.5 × 60.3 cm)

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

The Red Sea

1984 · Oil, lead, woodcut, photograph, and shellac on canvas

9' 1 3/4" x 13' 11 3/8" (278.8 x 425.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Auszug aus Aegypten (Departure from Egypt)

1984 · Synthetic polymer paint, charcoal, and string on cut-and-pasted gelatin silver on board

43 1/8 x 33 1/2" (109.5 x 85 cm) (irreg)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (4)

76 published of 114 catalogued · 61 with image

MoMA
38 publishedof 76 catalogued32 img
Tate
25 published23 img
The Met
7 published
Art Institute Chicago
6 published6 img

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom
2000 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Untitled
2006 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The moral law within us, the starry heavens above us
1969 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
St John’s Lodge
2007 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Cette obscure clarté qui tombe des étoiles
1999 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Johannisnacht gefallene Bilder. The secret life of plants
2006 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
The starry heavens above us, and the moral law within
1969 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Heroic Symbols
1969 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number
Heroic Symbols
1969 · Tate · 1 prov
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Parsifal II
1973 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

39 assets

Wikipedia

Artsy

Wikimedia Commons (Instagram fallback)

Opening of The Herta and paul Building 108

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Relationships

Collections8

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Art Institute of Chicago Tate The Metropolitan Museum of Art Christie's Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Represented by

Gagosian

Current

Gallery

Gagosian

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

In collection

Tate

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia

In collection

MASS MoCA

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Auction house

Christie's

Background

Education

Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Visual Arts

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Solo Exhibition Anselm Kiefer

2026

Exhibition Anselm Kiefer

Exhibition Anselm Kiefer at Centro de Arte Hortensia Herrero, Valencia