Martin Gayford

‘I like vanished things’: Anselm Kiefer on art, alchemy and his childhood

Martin Gayford talks to a surprisingly jolly Kiefer in advance of a major new Royal Academy retrospective

‘Interior (Innenraum)’, 1981 [collection Stedelijk museum, Amsterdam/photo © Anselm Kiefer]

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