Anselm Kiefer (1945)

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After school, Kiefer went to university, where he studied law, literature and linguistics. But then he decided that would be an artist. He studied at the Academy Freeburg, Karlsruhe, and Düsseldorf (1970-72 gg., In the workshop Boyce).
His reputation in artistic circles dates back to 1969 when he made them put up photographs, which he gave the Nazi salute in the major cities of Europe - its aim was to remind people the horrors of Nazism, which, in his opinion, not dead: "When I was in University, taught us the right brilliant professor committed by the Nazis in his convictions. The school subject of Nazism have paid only 2 weeks, at home as the story has never been touched.
Already in 1970-ies. Kifkr became one of the kupno German artists of the postwar period.
Since 1983 he lives and works in the south of France, in Barzhake.

The main theme of his paintings, which he uses mixed media (sand, earth, ash, saliva, chalk, hair, all kinds of waste) are the destruction caused by World War II and the catastrophe it has caused, inter alia, the Holocaust. The choice of materials is also in accordance with its uchvstvom color: "The longer you look at my work, the better you can see their color. Initially, my work appear gray, but looking at them, you see that the materials I work with, bring them in color. In some works, the artist contrasts the image of the disaster symbol of art, human ingenuity - for example, in "Icarus, the sands of Brandenburg" - written butter wing ...
Two years ago, Kiefer became the first artist invited to the Paris Grand Palais for the annual exhibition Monumenta, the past with great success.