Born in 1945 in Donaueschingen, Germany, Anselm Kiefer now lives and works in Paris.
From the very beginning of his career, he has held solo exhibitions in many prestigious museums, including: Kunsthalle, Berne (1978); Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (1984); Stadelijk Museum, Amsterdam (1986); Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Art of Philadelphia, MOCA, Los Angeles, and MoMA, New York (1987); Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin (1991); Kyoto National Museum of Art (1993); Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art (1993); Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (1997); The Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo (1998); The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (1998); Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (1999); Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam (2011); Royal Academy of Arts, London (2014).
In 1977 he participated in documenta in Kassel. In 1980, his work was presented at the XXIX Venice Biennale, in the German Pavilion, where he received numerous critical awards.
In 2007, the Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao presented a major retrospective dedicated to his work, and in the same year, the Louvre in Paris commissioned a work from the artist for its permanent collection.