This artist's trip to rural brick factories in India inspired his series The Fertile Crescent, and he used large books, shards of porcelain plumbing mixture, and bits of a television circuit board to create a massive pyramid in his work Osiris and Isis.
This artist's trip to rural brick factories in India inspired his series The Fertile Crescent, and he used large books, shards of porcelain plumbing mixture, and bits of a television circuit board to create a massive pyramid in his work Osiris and Isis. He did a series of four paintings constructed from strips of woodchip wallpaper specially laid onto canvas to create a massive wooden attic space, which he used as the unusual new setting for his reimagining of the Parsifal legend. This artist placed a palette in the middle of an abandoned plaza based on the courtyard Albert Speer designed for the Reich Chancellery in his work To an Unknown Painter, and he used straw embedded in paint to depict the golden hair of a A figure from Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue" in his piece Margarethe. For 10 points, name this contemporary German artist known for his heavy use of impasto whose work deals with German guilt confronting Nazi legacy.
This artist's trip to rural brick factories in India inspired his series The Fertile Crescent, and he used large books, shards of porcelain plumbing mixture, and bits of a television circuit board to create a massive pyramid in his work Osiris and Isis.
Anselm Kiefer