This was an incredible placement I worked on recently that was safely installed on the upper floors of a skyscraper built by legendary French architect Thierry Despont. The painting above is by internationally renowned German artist Anselm Kiefer (b. 1945), who was particularly significant to the collector. The work is a crown jewel the client’s collection and has pride of place in their home. It was an honor to place it for these avid collectors and friends.
Executed during the pandemic, Kiefer created the work titled Wer jetzt kein Haus hat, baut sich keines mehr (2021-2022) as part of a new series of paintings paying homage to the Austrian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926). Depicting the changing seasons reflects the artist and poet’s fascination with transience, transformation, and decay.
Kiefer’s work is deeply influenced by his upbringing in Post-World War II Germany and the country’s ongoing reckoning of the horrors of the Holocaust and the Third Reich, as well as spiritual concepts of Kabbalah.
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