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Identification and Creation

Object Number
2001.206.9
People
Anselm Kiefer, German (Donaueschingen, Germany born 1945)
Title
"Occupations 1969" in Interfunktionen No. 12
Other Titles
Original Language Title: "Besetzungen 1969" in Interfunktionen No. 12
Classification
Prints
Work Type
print
Date
1975
Culture
German
Persistent Link
https://hvrd.art/o/339957

Physical Descriptions

Medium
18 offset photolithographs in softbound book with adhesive binding
Technique
Photolithograph
Dimensions
29.2 x 21 cm (11 1/2 x 8 1/4 in.)

Acquisition and Rights

Credit Line
Harvard Art Museums/Busch-Reisinger Museum, Antonia Paepcke DuBrul Fund
Copyright
© Anselm Kiefer
Accession Year
2001
Object Number
2001.206.9
Division
Modern and Contemporary Art
Contact
am_moderncontemporary@harvard.edu
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Descriptions

Commentary
Anselm Kiefer called his series of staged self-portraits from 1969 "Occupations" ("Besetzungen"). About two years later he arranged 18 of these photographs in the sequence that was subsequently published as "Occupations 1969" ("Besetzungen 1969") in this issue of the Cologne art journal "Interfunktionen," no. 12 (1975). Several of the photographs are reproduced with typed captions identifying the location in which the photograph was made. The caption accompanying the first image reads: "Anselm Kiefer / Between summer and fall 1969 I occupied Switzerland, France, and Italy. Some photographs." ("Anselm Kiefer / Zwischen Sommer und Herbst 1969 habe ich die Schweiz, Frankreich und Italien besetzt. Ein paar Fotos.")

Publication History

  • Stephanie Barron and Sabine Eckmann, Art of Two Germanys: Cold War Cultures, exh. cat., Harry N. Abrams, Inc. (New York, 2009)

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