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My Father Pledged Me a Sword
"Ein Schwert Verhiess mir der Vater"
1975. Watercolor, gouache, and ballpoint pen on paper
12 5/8 x 9 1/2 in. (32.1 x 24.1 cm)
Inscribed across bottom in ballpoint pen: Ein Schwert verhiess mir der Vater
Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift , 1995
1995.14.15
| In the mid-1970s and early 1980s Kiefer made a number of paintings, watercolors, composite woodcuts, and books on themes from ancient German mythology as interpreted by the German composer Richard Wagner (1813-1883). Kiefer was particularly inspired by ancient Germanic legends as retold in Wagner's four-opera cycle "The Ring of the Nibelung." |
• Selected Works
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