Lot's Wife
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As a German artist, Kiefer struggles with the aftermath of the Holocaust and creates work that engages history, ethical issues of the present, and German identity through images emblematic of Nazi sites. This barren, deeply recessed landscape is divided by train tracks, recalling the deportation and death issued by the Nazi party. A substructure of lead mounted on wood is marked by footprints and tire tracks, plastered, burned, and covered with ash. The raw natural materials and destructive artistic process symbolize human tragedy. Salt, applied to the upper half of the work, connects the historical event with the biblical narrative of Lot’s escape from Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot’s wife, who disobeyed warnings not to look back at God’s destruction of the cities, was turned into a pillar of salt.
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- 1990.8.a
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- Cleveland Museum of Art
- Immagine: Cleveland Museum of Art — © Anselm Kiefer
Nella vita di Anselm Kiefer
Tutta la vita1980s
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.
1987
Exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago organised a comprehensive solo exhibition of Kiefer's work.
12 giugno 1987 – 20 settembre 1987
Exhibition: documenta 8
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.
1990 · Premio
Goslarer Kaiserring
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.
