Between Heaven And Earth: Anselm Kiefer’s Fallen Angels Exhibition

During my stay in Florence, I was very much interested in seeing Anselm Kiefer’s Exhibition at the Palazzo Strozzi Museum ending July 2024. You may be asking, who is this artist? I vaguely knew of him from having read about one of his works auctioned for over $3 million. He is a German painter and sculptor whose entire body of work grapples with humanity’s many controversial issues, mostly of historical context starting with Germany’s history as well and the battle between good and evil. The Fallen Angels exhibition is breathless, as it contains many different themes of his work and personal journey. Eight enormous rooms of art pieces and installations that blew me away……

A Bit More About Anselm Kiefer

Born in Germany a few months after World War II, Anselm grew up in the aftermath of the war and its destruction. Many of his works confront this dark past of Germany, recognizing that his father was a German soldier. He is an advocate for what he refers to as remembering and facing the loss of Germany’s culture by the Nazis. Before being a painter, he worked in photography, noted in the exhibition, along with over 200 paintings and sculpture pieces. At 80, he continues to produce work and is known for being a bit unusual, deeply philosophical and spiritual, and is considered one of the…