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Identification and Creation

Object Number
1993.205.14
People
Anselm Kiefer, German (Donaueschingen, Germany born 1945)
Title
Front cover of "The Heavenly Palaces: Merkabah"
Classification
Books
Work Type
book cover
Date
1990
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/300064

Physical Descriptions

Medium
Ash and acrylic on gelatin silver print mounted to bound cardboard
Dimensions
actual: 100.8 x 71 cm (39 11/16 x 27 15/16 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Purchase in honor of Arend Oetker through the generosity of a group of Friends of the Busch-Reisinger Museum
Copyright
© Anselm Kiefer
Accession Year
1993
Object Number
1993.205.14
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Publication History

  • Massimo Cacciari and Germano Celant, Anselm Kiefer, exh. cat., Charta (Milan, Italy, 1997), p. 282
  • Masterpieces of world art : Fogg Art Museum, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Busch-Reisinger Museum, 1997
  • Lisa Saltzman, Anselm Kiefer and Art after Auschwitz, Cambridge University Press (Cambridge, MA, 1999), p. 39, fig. 12

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