Anselm Kiefer’s Für Jean Genet (For Jean Genet ... a haunting visage that is a ghostly reminiscence of Van Gogh’s Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear (1889) – and appears again in Brünhilde ...

In 1969, Anselm Kiefer, a 24-year-old art student ... a series of performances and photo montages featuring caricatural self-portraits in which he performed the banned straight-armed Nazi salute.

Next month, the German artist Anselm Kiefer will be 80 ... And this episode’s Work of the Week is Portrait of Mateu Fernández de Soto (1901) by Pablo Picasso, a painting from the artist ...

Anselm Kiefer was born in the southern German town of Donaueschingen a few months before the end of the Second World War. On ...