Faith, Hope, Love

1976

Not on view

In this work, the earth takes the form of an artist’s palette. Rooted in the ground, the trees are identified as faith, hope, and love. Kiefer has explained that these virtues "are like the colors on the palette, the materials to paint with. It’s all material for the artist." This notion is reinforced by touches of one primary color on each tree and by the materiality of the surface, which is produced by heavy strokes of brown and ultramarine pastel and by the reflectivity of the pastel fixative.

Artwork Details

Title: Faith, Hope, Love
Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
Date: 1976
Medium: India ink, watercolor, pastel, and graphite on two joined sheets of paper
Dimensions: 36 3/8 × 24 5/8 in. (92.4 × 62.5 cm)
Classification: Drawings
Credit Line: Gift of Cynthia Hazen Polsky, in memory of her father, Joseph H. Hazen, 2000
Object Number: 2000.96.5
Rights and Reproduction: © Anselm Kiefer
Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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