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Midsummer Night by Anselm Kiefer

Midsummer Night

Anselm Kiefer · 1980

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DETAILS
Artist
Anselm Kiefer
Date
1980
Medium
Gouache and acrylic on cut and pasted photographs
Location
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
Dimensions
22 7/8 x 17 1/2 in. (58.1 x 44.5 cm)
Collection
Modern and Contemporary Art
Credit line
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
ART MOVEMENTS
Romanesque art
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THE ARTIST

Anselm Kiefer

Anselm Kiefer is a German painter and sculptor whose monumental works confront the dark shadows of German history and the Holocaust, often incorporating materials like lead, straw, and ash.

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