An Interview with Anselm Kiefer, Iconoclastic Alchemist

Anselm Kiefer, The Painter's Studio, 1983. Watercolor, gouache and graphite on paper; 15 3/8 × 20 7/16 inches.

A watercolor painting shows a low, light-colored building in a dark, barren landscape under a stormy sky with smeared gray and black clouds.

Kiefer takes myths and recasts them, unites rivers across continents, and breaks through long-held beliefs to penetrate deeper into the in-between states of being where all great art lives.

An Interview with Anselm Kiefer, Iconoclastic Alchemist