Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” weighing more than seven tons, is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a bold artist who places himself alongside Van Gogh, but Anselm Kiefer never lacked audacity.

Anselm Kiefer, who turns 80 this weekend, travelled in Van Gogh’s footsteps when he was 18, hitchhiking his way through the Netherlands, Belgium and France. He has now returned to the Dutchman ...

By Nina Siegal Reporting from Amsterdam Anselm Kiefer’s new installation seems to envelop the grand staircase of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Paintings reach from floor to ceiling in colors ...

Anselm Kiefer talks in front of his artwork The Starry Night during a press preview of the Anselm Kiefer exhibit.

AMSTERDAM — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a ...

At a new exhibition in Amsterdam, celebrated post-war German artist Anselm Kiefer – known for attacking his canvases with a chisel and building works from straw, lead and flower petals – wanted to ...

In 1969, a 24-year-old art student called Anselm Kiefer decided to confront "the amnesia of West Germany's postwar identity" head-on, said Claudia Barbieri Childs in The Art Newspaper. Wearing his ...

Kiefer said he did not set out to make an exclusively anti-war exhibition, even though he closely follows world events including the conflict triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

Anselm Kiefer adjust a piece of his artwork The Starry Night during a press preview of the Anselm Kiefer exhibit at the Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, Netherlands, Wednesday ...