Lot's Wife, Anselm Kiefer, 1989
Anselm KieferAlemania, 1945

Lot's Wife

1989 · Painting

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Born in the final year of World War II, Anselm Kiefer addresses the history and legacy of the Third Reich in his native Germany. "We see railway tracks anywhere and think about Auschwitz," the artist said soon after painting Lot's Wife. "It will remain that way in the long run." The drama of the railway tracks dissecting a barren landscape is heightened by the work's surface, dense with gesture and a range of materials, including salt. Referring to the fate of Lot's wife in the Book of Genesis—who was turned to a pillar of salt when she looked back at the destruction of Sodom—Kiefer frames a historical narrative within a biblical one.

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En la vida de Anselm Kiefer

La vida entera
  1. 1980s

    Kabbalah, alchemy and lead

    In the 1980s Kiefer studied the Kabbalah and Kabbalists such as Robert Fludd. Lead, which became his chief material, first attracted him when he had to repair ageing pipes in the first house he owned; later he discovered its connection with alchemy. Extended journeys to the US and the Middle East also influenced his work.

  2. 1987

    Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago

    The Art Institute of Chicago organised a comprehensive solo exhibition of Kiefer's work.

  3. 12 de junio de 1987 – 20 de septiembre de 1987

    Exhibition: documenta 8

  4. 1988

    Turns a brick factory in Höpfingen into an artwork

    Kiefer's studio moved from the attic of the former school in Hornbach to a factory building in nearby Buchen; in 1988 he transformed a former brick factory in Höpfingen into an extensive artwork with numerous installations and sculptures.

  5. 1990 · Distinción

    Goslarer Kaiserring

  6. 1991

    Leaves Germany to travel the world

    In 1991, after twenty years of work in the Odenwald, Kiefer left Germany to travel the world — to India, Mexico, Japan, Thailand, Indonesia, Australia and the United States.

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