Kiefer is the subject of Anselm, a new movie by Wim Wenders, a filmmaker who's almost his exact contemporary: They were born a few months apart in the war-ravaged Germany of 1945.

Anselm Kiefer’s “Breaking of the Vessels,” installed in the cavernous central hallway at the St. Louis Art Museum, looms over you like some ravaged altarpiece or charred library.

AMSTERDAM — 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.

Of all the ambitious painters of the 1980s, Anselm Kiefer seemed destined to make the most lasting impression. Unlike Julian Schnabel, whose gargantuan paintings filled with broken plates reflect ...

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.