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Anselm Kiefer is a contemporary German artist who deals with the issues of his country's past. Kiefer employs a multi-media approach in his works which range from painting and sculpture to large scale installations. Several decades of his work can be related to specific essays by Sigmund Freud. They are Repression (1915), Mourning and Melancholia (1917), and Remembering, Repeating and Working Through (1914). These essays can be compared to the issues Germany dealt with after World War II. Kiefer also created works based on the poetry of Paul Celan. His poem Death Fugue inspired Kiefer to create works that included the subject of the ideal Jewish woman Sulamith and the ideal German woman Margarete. Celan wrote poetry based on his firsthand experience as a prisoner in a Nazi labor camp during the war, while Kiefer is creating works from the perspective a generation after the war. Later in his career, Kiefer begins to create works based on the Kabbalah and ideas of Jewish mysticism. His most monumental work to date is The Seven Heavenly Palaces located at Hangar Bicocca in Milan, Italy. It represents the seven palaces that one must pass through before reaching the presence of God. |
