New exhibition highlights how German artist Anselm Kiefer was inspired by Vincent van Gogh

(5 Mar 2025) NETHERLANDS ART SOURCE: ASSOCIATED PRESS RESTRICTIONS: LENGTH: 4:54 ASSOCIATED PRESS Amsterdam, 5 March 2025 1. Tilt down of Anselm Kiefer arriving at Stedelijk Museum with Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam Director Rein Wolfs 2. Mid of Kiefer 3. Various of the artwork installation "Tell me where the flowers are" 4. Close of Kiefer 5. Various of installation 6. SOUNDBITE (English) Anselm Kiefer, artist: “So, we spoke about 'Tell me where the flowers are.' So this is it this is a quite kitschy song, you know. But there's one sentence in this, in this song says 'Wann wird man je verstehen' 'Who will ever learn.' This sentence makes this song philosophical, you know, because we cannot understand. We cannot understand, for example, that today things happen that happened in (19)33 in the world, you know.” 7. Pan of paintings 8. Pan of the painting by Kiefer "Beilzeit – Wolfszeit" (Axe-Age – Wolf-Age), 2019 9. Wide of sculpture by Kiefer of an airplane resembling a B-1 bomber that is made of lead and called “Journey to the end of the Night.” 10. Various of Kiefer's "De sterrennacht" (The Starry Night) July 2024 11. Various of Kiefer's "Schierlingsbecher"(Hemlock Cup), 2019 12. SOUNDBITE (English) Anselm Kiefer, artist: “I don’t say ‘I do now an exhibition against the war.’ This I don’t do because this is a program; I’m not a programmatic artist. I do what what is in me, what has to come out. And that is about all kinds of things, about the dead, about the war...” 13. Various of Kiefer's "Das letzte Fuder" (The Last Load), 2019 14. SOUNDBITE (English) Edwin Becker, exhibition curator: “Van Gogh, of course, it's a much tinier scale, but with a huge impact also because of the colors. And with Kiefer, it's the same sort of strength and power, but in a monumental scale with pasty oil paint, with flowers, with straw, also with electrolytes - it's a combination of different materials and techniques, which are sometimes a bit hidden. It's also like Kiefer is an alchemist. He's working like a sort of how do you say and yeah, and an alchemist transforming material into an art.” 15. Various of Kiefer's"Die Krähen" (The Crows), 2019 16. Various of Vincent van Gogh's "Wheatfield with Crows", 1890 17. Various of Vincent van Gogh’s "Sunflowers Gone to Seed", 1887 18. Various of Kiefer‘s "Sol Invictus", 1995 19. SOUNDBITE (English) Edwin Becker, exhibition curator: “Still, the influence of Van Gogh lingers on, and as he said himself, he was not so much captivated by the myth of Van Gogh not about the depressions, about the disease, about the emotional approach. It was, for him, more almost irrational structure of the paintings.” 20. Various of Stedelijk Museum exterior STORYLINE: LEADIN Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and Stedelijk Museum have teamed up for a landmark exhibition showcasing the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer. Titled "Where Have All the Flowers Gone?", the exhibition delves into Kiefer’s lifelong fascination with Dutch post-impressionist Vincent van Gogh and his enduring influence on the artist’s work. STORYLINE When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Kiefer said that he did not set out to make an exclusively anti-war exhibition, even though he follows world events closely including the conflict triggered by Russia's invasion of Ukraine. It's not just the brooding black birds that the two artists depict. One of Van Gogh's most famous inspirations — sunflowers — also appear in Kiefer's works. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: https://twitter.com/AP_Archive Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/APArchives ​​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/APNews/ You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/3f408b5b5ffa4b69a07d2a4e23285e01