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In 1890 Vincent van Gogh painted his final works. Seventy-two years later an eighteen-year-old Anselm Kiefer received a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of Van Gogh, starting in the Netherlands ...
Kiefer/Van Gogh (28 June-26 October) at London’s Royal Academy of Arts (RA) presents works by the German artist that are modest in number but enormous in size. The exhibition’s finale, The ...
"Captivated by Vincent. The Intimate Friendship of Jo van Gogh-Bonger and Isaac Israëls" will be on view at the Van Gogh Museum.
They helped to make Vincent van Gogh among the most famous and influential painters in the history of art. Why did sunflowers obsess him and so many other artists before and since?
Sunflowers are the first thing to grab you in this dual show, but they are German artist Anselm Kiefer’s sunflowers, not Vincent van Gogh’s. Instead of bright explosions of life, these are ...
Installation view of the ‘Kiefer / Van Gogh’ exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts, London (28 June - 26 October 2025). Artist Anselm Kiefer is seen with his work Walther von der Vogelweide: Under ...
Plenty of artists have dreamed they could somehow be Van Gogh – only Kiefer has had the bottle to follow through ...
Only one living artist can measure up to Van Gogh In a bruising showdown at the Royal Academy, Anselm Kiefer, the alpha-male of modern art, makes his Dutch hero look positively weedy ...