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Anselm Kiefer

1945 - Today

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Anselm Kiefer (born 8 March 1945) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the end of the 1960s. His works incorporate materials such as straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Anselm Kiefer has received more than 1,026,642 page views. His biography is available in 42 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 35 in 2019). Anselm Kiefer is the 183rd most popular painter (up from 293rd in 2019), the 464th most popular biography from Germany (up from 761st in 2019) and the 14th most popular German Painter.

Anselm Kiefer is a German artist who is most famous for his paintings and sculptures.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Anselm Kiefer ranks 183 out of 2,023Before him are Niki de Saint Phalle, Ivan Shishkin, Bernardo Bellotto, Fra Bartolomeo, Anton Raphael Mengs, and Han van Meegeren. After him are Johannes Itten, Benozzo Gozzoli, Jan Matejko, Maurice de Vlaminck, Domenichino, and Hans Baldung.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1945, Anselm Kiefer ranks 33Before him are Patrick Modiano, Ritchie Blackmore, Rod Stewart, Abdelmadjid Tebboune, Ian Gillan, and Adly Mansour. After him are Mia Farrow, Lemmy, Slobodan Praljak, Jean Nouvel, Mahmoud al-Zahar, and Goldie Hawn.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Anselm Kiefer ranks 464 out of 7,253Before him are George Paget Thomson (1892), Ernst Lubitsch (1892), Julius Lothar Meyer (1830), Rudolf Dassler (1898), Friedrich Fromm (1888), and Maria Anna of Neuburg (1667). After him are Pyotr Stolypin (1862), Oliver Kahn (1969), Louise of Hesse-Kassel (1817), Jakob Fugger (1459), Bernhard von Bülow (1849), and Prince Maximilian of Baden (1867).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Anselm Kiefer ranks 14Before him are Hans Memling (1435), Franz Marc (1880), Hans von Aachen (1552), Albrecht Altdorfer (1480), Emil Nolde (1867), and Otto Dix (1891). After him are Hans Baldung (1484), Lucas Cranach the Younger (1515), Gerhard Richter (1932), George Grosz (1893), August Macke (1887), and Franz Xaver Winterhalter (1805).