• Anselm Kiefer – war painters and poets – Bak, Nash, Sassoon, T.E. Lawrence

    Anselm Kiefer, the German painter, on exhibition in Oxford and 80 in a few weeks, has used his art to explore the infiltration of his country’s culture and psychology by Nazism and the far right. Born in 1945 he was one of the first generation of German artists to confront the country’s recent past head-on and to explore how art could keep history alive so that it would not be forgotten, or repeated.  He was born 8 March 1945 in Donaueschingen in the Black Forest, in a hospital

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