Famed for work that evokes war and destruction, major institutions are suddenly giving his art pride of place.

‘You can’t just paint a landscape when tanks have driven through it,” says the subject of “Anselm,” a documentary by director Wim Wenders on the artist Anselm Kiefer. Born in Germany in 1945, Mr.

The Oscar-contending documentary Anselm marks an encounter between two of the world’s great artists – one renowned for cinema, the other for painting, installations, and sculpture. The filmmaker, Wim ...

All his life, the churn of history has spoken to 78-year-old Anselm Kiefer, who has responded with imposingly environmental, mythic and beautiful paintings and sculptures that get at something ...

AMSTERDAM (AP) — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a ...

German artist Anselm Kiefer has opened a museum in his parents' home to show exactly how it was when he was growing up in the 1950s. Kiefer, one of the most important living artists, is a painter and ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. AMSTERDAM (AP) — When he was just 17 years ...