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Untitled

1996
Not on view
This work belongs to a series of images that Kiefer created by juxtaposing the dark fossilized forms of sunflowers with images of a naked man. For Kiefer, dead sunflowers with their heads packed with seeds are potent symbols of death and rebirth. Here, they are joined by a figure who resembles the artist but may be Robert Fludd, a sixteenth-century English occultist who believed that every plant in the world had its own equivalent star in the firmament. In this dramatic woodcut presentation, with its attendant nationalistic connotations, Kiefer suggests a link between the individual and the cosmos.

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: Untitled
  • Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
  • Date: 1996
  • Medium: Woodcut and white and black acrylic paints with shellac on paper on canvas
  • Dimensions: 11 ft. 11 1/4 in. × 97 in. (363.9 × 246.4 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Gift of Anne and Anthony d'Offay, in honor of William S. Lieberman, 1998
  • Object Number: 1998.279
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Anselm Kiefer
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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