Ride to the Vistula

Anselm Kiefer German

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Ride to the Vistula shares its title with a 1941 book by the Silesian author Alfons Hayduk, a historian of the Vistula region who was also a member of the Nazi party; the book was banned in West Germany after the war. A plunging horse (Poland) stretches diagonally across the entire sheet, its rear leg extending the composition’s borders (and metaphorically, Germany’s or Poland’s) onto a small rectangle of paper at the upper left.

Ride to the Vistula, Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945), Acrylic and graphite on joined paper

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Ride to the Vistula, Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945), Acrylic and graphite on joined paper
Ride to the Vistula, Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945), Acrylic and graphite on joined paper

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