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Ride to the Vistula

1977–78
Not on view
Ride to the Vistula shares its title with a 1941 book by the Silesian author Alfons Hayduk, a historian of the Vistula region who was also a member of the Nazi party; the book was banned in West Germany after the war. A plunging horse (Poland) stretches diagonally across the entire sheet, its rear leg extending the composition’s borders (and metaphorically, Germany’s or Poland’s) onto a small rectangle of paper at the upper left.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Ride to the Vistula
  • Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
  • Date: 1977–78
  • Medium: Acrylic paint and graphite on joined paper
  • Dimensions: 33 1/4 × 27 1/8 in. (84.5 × 68.9 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.14.24
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Anselm Kiefer
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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Let a Thousand Flowers Bloom, Anselm Kiefer German, Gouache, sand, ash and charcoal on two torn and pasted photographs
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Autumn Forest, Anselm Kiefer German, Watercolor, opaque watercolor, and graphite on papers
Autumn Forest
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Wild Emperor, Anselm Kiefer German, Watercolor and acrylic on paper
Wild Emperor
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