From June 28 by way of October 26, 2025, the Royal Academy of Arts in London presents the exhibition “Kiefer/ Van Gogh”
Supply: Royal Academy of Arts. Picture: Vincent van Gogh: Snow-Lined Discipline with a Harrow (after Millet), 1890 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis))
Vincent van Gogh has had a permanent affect on Anselm Kiefer Hon RA over the artist’s practically 60-year profession. In June 2025, the Royal Academy of Arts will current work by each artists, exhibited facet by facet for the primary time within the UK. The exhibition will deliver collectively work and drawings by Van Gogh from the gathering of the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, with work, drawings and sculptures by Kiefer, together with new work that has by no means been proven earlier than. The presentation will reveal similarities of thought, course of and material shared by the 2 artists but additionally replicate noticeable variations, providing guests a brand new perception into each artists’ work.
Van Gogh was Kiefer’s first inventive inspiration. Kiefer first encountered Van Gogh’s work at age 18 when he obtained a journey grant to observe in his footsteps, beginning within the Netherlands, by way of to Belgium, Paris and Arles, within the south of France. Throughout his travels, Kiefer produced drawings impressed by Van Gogh and was profoundly influenced by the rational construction and compositional readability of Van Gogh’s landscapes. All through Kiefer’s profession, the pioneer of Publish-Impressionism has knowledgeable the themes and strategies of Kiefer’s monumental work and sculptures which draw on historical past, mythology, literature, philosophy and science.
Highlights of the exhibition will embrace a collection of Kiefer’s celebrated large-scale landscapes, together with Die Krähen (The Crows), 2019 (Courtesy of the Artist and White Dice) and Nevermore, 2014 (Courtesy Eschaton Basis). These monumental works clearly encapsulate Kiefer’s admiration for compositional units utilized by Van Gogh, by way of his adoption of excessive horizon strains, close-up imagery mixed with deep views and panoramic codecs. In addition they replicate shared motifs of crows and wheatfields and a deep affinity in the direction of painterly floor textures. Juxtaposed with seminal landscapes by Van Gogh, together with Snow-Lined Discipline with a Harrow (after Millet), 1890 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis)) and Discipline of Irises close to Arles, 1888 (Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Basis)), the exhibition will permit guests to contemplate Van Gogh’s enduring affect on Kiefer’s observe.
