God among Thorns: On Anselm Kiefer’s Pietà (2007)

Article: From Anselm Kiefer's practice, a mixture of metaphysics and alchemy was announced. Speech and work. Soon, I witnessed the destruction of the modern war, the division of his homeland, the reconstruction of fragmented countries, and the struggle for resurrection. The power to research various histories of German history, myths, literature, identity and architecture, its surface is complicated and multilayered like a theme, creating a variety of subdivided works. Texture interaction enhances the solemnity and transcendence of its content. Source: http: //arttattler.com/archivekiefer.html

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter, sculptor, and mix media artist. The theme he covers in his art usually responds to national identity and German historical issues, especially for the Holocaust. During those times these themes were still taboo, he interrogated these themes, but his work forced his contemporaries to deal with the German past. But as New York Times wrote in 1986, there are still some questions about whether Anselm Keefer is too close to the troubles of German war history. In addition, the issue of Anselm Kiefer and Jewish Egyptians was published in the October - December issue of Art & Text of Australia's Art Journal. In the article, art critic Peter Schuerdal first tried to systematically handle the contents of the picture of Kiefer.