Wege der Weltweisheit die Hermannsschlacht (Ways of Worldly Wisdom: Hermann’s Battle)

Prints and Drawings

1977

Anselm Kiefer
German, born 1945

Status: Currently Off View
Department: Prints and Drawings

Artist: Anselm Kiefer
Title: Wege der Weltweisheit die Hermannsschlacht (Ways of Worldly Wisdom: Hermann’s Battle)
Place: Germany (Artist's nationality:)
Date Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.: 1977
Medium: Woodcuts in black, with opaque black and white paints and touches of watercolor, on ivory Asian paper, bound
Dimensions: Closed: 62.5 × 44.5 cm (24 5/8 × 17 9/16 in.)
Credit Line: Gift of Susan Manilow in memory of Lew Manilow
Reference Number: 2018.697

Düsseldorf, Städtische Kunsthalle, “Anselm Kiefer,” Mar. 24–May 5, 1984, pp. 74–83; also Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, May 11–June 21, 1984; and The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, July 31–Sept. 30, 1984.
Art Institute of Chicago, “Anselm Kiefer,” Dec. 5, 1987–Jan. 31, 1988, pp. 49–55; also, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Mar. 6–May 1, 1988; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, June 14–Sept. 11, 1988; and Museum of Modern Art, New York, Oct. 17, 1987–Jan. 3, 1989.

Sold by Anthony d’Offday Gallery, London, to Lew and Susan Manilow; given to the Art Institute of Chicago, 2018.

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