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StatsYour Golden Hair, Margarete
1980
40.0 x 30.0 cm
This work’s title comes from "Death Fugue" by the Romanian-Jewish poet and Holocaust survivor Paul Celan (1920–1970). Widely read in postwar Germany, the poem is set in a concentration camp and narrated by the Jewish inmates, who suffer under the camp’s blue-eyed commandant. Singing "your golden hair, Margarete / your ashen hair, Shulamith," they contrast German womanhood, personified by Margarete, and Jewish womanhood (Shulamith was King Solomon’s dark-haired beloved in the Song of Songs). Here, as in most of Kiefer’s more than thirty works devoted to Margarete, the German heroine is represented by only a symbol of her "golden hair"—sheaves of wheat in the countryside.
Anselm Kiefer (1945 –)
Explore Anselm Kiefer's monumental paintings & sculptures confronting German history & trauma. Known for ash, straw & powerful symbolism, his work is a visceral experience.
About this artwork
- Title: Your Golden Hair, Margarete
- Artist: Anselm Kiefer
- Year: 1980
- Original dimensions: 40.0 x 30.0 cm
- Format: Landscape
- Copyright status: Under copyright
- Main color: Sap Green
- Color hue: Green to Violet Spectrum
