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DiaporamaBöhmen liegt am Meer (Bohemia Lies by the Sea)
Abstract Expressionism
1996
191.0 x 561.0 cm
Kiefer’s nearly fifty-year exploration of the complications of history has taken both monumental and intimate forms. For this work, he chose an immense double canvas on which to present an isolated country road seen through a field covered with poppies. Associated with sleep and also emblematic of military veterans, the poppies are described with paint the color of dried blood. The title, inscribed along the narrow horizon and again on the path, comes from a poem by Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973) about longing for utopia while recognizing that it can never be found, just as Bohemia—the landlocked region in Central Europe annexed by Nazi Germany as the Sudetenland—can never lie by the sea.
Anselm Kiefer (1945 –)
Explore Anselm Kiefer's monumental paintings & sculptures confronting German history & trauma. Known for ash, straw & powerful symbolism, his work is a visceral experience.
About this artwork
- Title: Böhmen liegt am Meer (Bohemia Lies by the Sea)
- Artist: Anselm Kiefer
- Year: 1996
- Original dimensions: 191.0 x 561.0 cm
- Format: Panoramic
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Movement: Abstract Expressionism
- Creative period: Mature Period
- Keywords: “multi layered paint” , “historical symbolism” , abstract painting
- Color hue: Green to Violet Spectrum
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