Siegfried's Difficult Way to Brünnhilde
Anselm Kiefer German
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The title of this work refers to the hero of Wagner’s Ring cycle, Siegfried, and his journey to the place where his lover, Brünnhilde, sleeps inside a ring of fire. It is also the title of a 1977 book of photographs Kiefer made on the subject of an abandoned railway bed, a motif that suggests a sense of loss, of forgotten time. "Our historical knowledge . . . determines our way of looking at things," Kiefer once said. "We see railway tracks anywhere and think about Auschwitz. It will remain that way in the long run."
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