That painting has massive dimensions and incorporates straw onto the canvas, like one of his paintings that takes its title from Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue.
This artist instructed a caretaker to let nature reclaim his 200-acre studio complex in Barjac. After this artist purchased the roof of a cathedral under renovation, he started making more works in a material he used for a bookshelf that hangs below a semicircular glass panel. The Copenhagen Contemporary currently has four warplanes by this artist on display made from the only material he claims is heavy enough to bear the weight of history, lead. His first patron was Georg Baselitz, with whom he co-represented his country at the 1980 Venice Biennale. The Philadelphia Museum of Art owns a fragile painting by this artist that is titled after the first stage of the alchemical process, (*) Nigredo. That painting has massive dimensions and incorporates straw onto the canvas, like one of his paintings that takes its title from Paul Celan's poem "Death Fugue." For 10 points, name this Neo-Expressionist of Margarethe whose works frequently examine Germany's Nazi history.
This artist instructed a caretaker to let nature reclaim his 200-acre studio complex in Barjac.
Anselm Kiefer