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Lot's Wife, 1989 (oil paint, ash, stucco, chalk, linseed oil, polymer emulsion, salt & applied...

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CVL500142
Image title
Lot's Wife, 1989 (oil paint, ash, stucco, chalk, linseed oil, polymer emulsion, salt & applied elements (e.g., copper heating coil), on canvas, attached to lead foil, on plywood panels)
Artist
Kiefer, Anselm (b.1945) / German
Location
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, USA
Medium
oil paint, ash, stucco, chalk, linseed oil, polymer emulsion, salt & applied elements (e.g., copper heating coil), on canvas, attached to lead foil, on plywood panels
Date
1989 AD (C20th AD)
Dimensions
350x410 (framed) cms
Image description

As a German artist, Kiefer struggles with the aftermath of the Holocaust and creates work that engages history, ethical issues of the present, and German identity through images emblematic of Nazi sites. This barren, deeply recessed landscape is based on Kiefer’s photos of train tracks in France. The raw natural materials and destructive artistic process symbolize human tragedy. A substructure of lead mounted on wood is marked by footprints and tire tracks, plastered, burned, and covered with ash. Salt, applied to the upper half of the work, connects the historical event with the biblical narrative of Lot’s escape from Sodom and Gomorrah. Lot’s wife, who disobeyed warnings not to look back at God’s destruction of the cities, was turned into a pillar of salt.

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Photo © Cleveland Museum of Art / Leonard C. Hanna, Jr. Fund / Bridgeman Images
Image keywords
20th century / Bible / Christianity / religion / holocaust / antisemitism / religious / biblical / salt / death / old testament / sodom and gomorrah / mixed media / train tracks / railway lines / religion
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