Die Welle (The Wave)

Date1990

Maker Anselm Kiefer German, born 1945

Object number2007.120

Provenance[Marian Goodman Gallery, New York]; purchased by Bagley & Virginia Wright, Seattle, Wash., June 9, 1990; gifted to the Seattle Art Museum, December 21, 2007

Photo CreditPhoto: Paul Macapia

Exhibition HistoryFrankfurt, Germany, Städtische Galerie im Städelschen Kunstinstitut, Anselm Kiefer. Über Räume und Völker, 1990. Brochure, reproduced. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art, March 4 - May 9, 1999. Seattle, Washington, Seattle Art Museum, Material Difference: German Perspectives, Mar. 1, 2019 - Apr. 26, 2020. Published ReferencesSaltzman, Lisa. Anselm Kiefer and art after Auschwitz. Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press 1999, xii, 173 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. Fairbrother, Trevor. The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 1999, p. 21, ill. pp. 20, 184, & frontispiece Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed. A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum. Seattle: Seattle Art Museum, 2007, p. 58, illus.

Credit LineGift of the Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, in honor of the 75th Anniversary of the Seattle Art Museum

Dimensions110 1/4 x 196 in. (280 x 497.8 cm)

MediumLead, clothes, steel wire, and ash on canvas