Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945, Donaueschingen in Baden-Württemberg, Germany) has lived and worked in France since 1993, and since 2007 has worked in Paris. After studying law, and Romance languages and literature, he devoted himself entirely to art. He attended the School of Fine Arts at Freiburg-im-Breisgau then the Art Academy in Karlsruhe while maintaining contact with Joseph Beuys. Kiefer’s work has been collected by and shown at major museums throughout the world including Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA (1987); The Museum of Modern Art, New York City(1988); Art Institute of Chicago, IL (1988); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); The Metropolitan Museum, New York City (1998); Fort Worth Museum of Art, TX (2005); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2006); Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain (2007); Louisiana Museum of Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (2010); Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel (2011); Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam (2011); Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA (2013); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2015); and NSU Art Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL (2016). In 2007, he became the first artist to be commissioned to install a permanent work at the Louvre, Paris, since Georges Braque some 50 years earlier. The same year, he inaugurated the Monumenta exhibitions series at the Grand Palais in Paris, with works paying special tribute to the poets Paul Celan and Ingeborg Bachmann. Kiefer was awarded the Praemium Imperiale Prize in Tokyo in 1999, the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade in 2008, the Leo Baeck Medal of the Leo Baeck Institute, New York, in 2011 and the J. Paul Getty Medal of the J. Paul Getty Trust in New York City in 2017. In 2010 Kiefer was appointed to the Chair of Artistic Creation at the renowned Collège de France in Paris, where he delivered nine lectures entitled “Art will survive its ruins.”

(as of 2018)