Anselm Kiefer

Heroic Symbols

Artist: Anselm Kiefer born 1945
Original title: Heroische Sinnbilder
Medium: Photograph, black and white, on paper
Dimensions: Support: 513 × 757 mm
frame: 730 × 972 × 90 mm
Collection: ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland
Acquisition: ARTIST ROOMS Tate and National Galleries of Scotland. Acquired jointly through The d’Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2011
Reference: AR01174

architecture(41,310)
- townscapes / man-made features(21,653)
- - road(1,234)
emotions, concepts and ideas(16,531)
- emotions and human qualities(5,350)
- - antihero(30)
  - heroism(29)
- formal qualities(12,564)
- - gestural(767)
  - photographic(4,742)
- universal concepts(6,403)
- - history(1,985)
  - irony(307)
history(5,785)
- politics and society(2,351)
- - politics: Nazi Germany, 1933-45(362)
nature(45,225)
- landscape(25,918)
- - rocky(2,827)
objects(23,363)
- medical(210)
- - wheelchair(27)
symbols and personifications(7,181)
- inscriptions(6,688)
- - artist’s notes(1,556)
  - German text(208)