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Anselm Kiefer

Kiefer
nature
German painter and sculptor working in lead, ash, straw and burnt books. Titles taken directly from the Lurianic vocabulary: Sefiroth, Shevirat Ha-Kelim, Merkaba, Lilith, Zim Zum.

⭐⭐ THE ONE ARTIST IN THIS WING WHERE NOBODY HAS TO ARGUE. He reads Scholem, he says so, and he names the paintings after the doctrine. And the choice is not decorative: a German born in 1945, using a Jewish theory of catastrophe and repair to talk about German history, is making an argument you can dislike but cannot call vague.
rhymes with
sephirahgevurah
whyThe vessels break. He builds things heavy enough to be about breaking.
tags
kiefer · sefiroth · shevirat hakelim · merkaba · lead · ash · scholem · germany · lilith
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Wikipedia — Kiefer direct
▶ watch
Behind the scenes: Anselm Kiefer's studio at Barjac — Royal Academy of Arts direct
Anselm Kiefer at the Royal Academy, London direct
Anselm Kiefer in conversation with Tim Marlow — the Royal Academy’s own recording direct
Imagine — Anselm Kiefer: Remembering the Future (2014), the hour-long portrait directSeekers on Kabbalah art curated · search
Seekers of Unity · Zevi Slavin · the Jewish Mysticism interview series · for a general audience
video — Anselm Kiefer kabbalah sefirot lead paintings search
❡ scholarship
scholarship — Kiefer Sefiroth Shevirat Ha-Kelim Merkaba Scholem kabbalah lead search
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