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On Every Mountain Peak There Is Peace

1971
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Kiefer based this watercolor on photographs he had taken near the barren but beautiful coast of what was then Yugoslavia and titled it after a poem by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832). Goethe's "Wanderers Nachtlied" (Wanderer's Nightsong), well known in Germany, begins, "On every mountain peak / there is peace." The artist said he was attracted to the poem because "it makes a connection between human beings and landscape and means something more important, that you . . . will enter into the same cycle of life and death as nature."

Artwork Details

Object Information
  • Title: On Every Mountain Peak There Is Peace
  • Artist: Anselm Kiefer (German, born Donaueschingen, 1945)
  • Date: 1971
  • Medium: Watercolor and opaque watercolor on paper
  • Dimensions: 12 1/2 x 18 7/8 in. (31.8 x 47.9 cm)
  • Classification: Drawings
  • Credit Line: Purchase, Lila Acheson Wallace Gift, 1995
  • Object Number: 1995.14.8
  • Rights and Reproduction: © Anselm Kiefer
  • Curatorial Department: Modern and Contemporary Art

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