Anselm Kiefer Early Works

Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean, responsible for exhibitions, displays and acquisitions of international art. She teaches at the University of Oxford, V&A and SOAS, London. Previously, she was a curator at Tate Modern, London and Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. She holds a PhD in art history from Bonn University and also studied at Keio University, Tokyo.

Richard Calvocoressi is an art historian and curator. He was an Assistant Keeper at the Tate Gallery, Director of the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, and Director of the Henry Moore Foundation. His publications include Anselm Kiefer: Morgenthau Plan (2013), Bacon Moore: Flesh and Bone (2013, with Martin Harrison), and Georg Baselitz (2021).

Harriet Häußler holds a PhD in art history from the Ruhr-Universität in Bochum, Germany. Since 2009, she has been teaching and publishing widely about the art market and art of the 20th and 21st centuries. She has authored numerous books and articles, including her thesis Anselm Kiefer: Die Himmelspaläste (2004).

Antonia Hoerschelmann studied art history, archaeology and philosophy at the University of Vienna. Since 1992, she has been the Curator of Modern and Contemporary art at the Albertina Museum in Vienna. In 2016, she curated the first major exhibition dedicated to Anselm Kiefer’s woodblock prints, at Albertina.

Liz Rideal is an artist and writer living in London. Professor at the Slade School of Fine Art, her publications include books on self-portraiture, portraiture and a best-seller, How to Read Paintings (2014). Rideal has exhibited widely in museums and galleries in Europe and America with three solo shows in New York.

Lisa Saltzman is a professor of History of Art and the inaugural Emily Rauh Pulitzer ’55 Chair in Modern and Contemporary Art at Bryn Mawr College. She is a specialist in post-war and contemporary art. Educated at Princeton and Harvard, she has been awarded fellowships from the Radcliffe Institute of Advanced Study, Clark Art Institute and Guggenheim Foundation.

Sabine Schütz, PhD is an art historian and art critic (AICA), focusing on modern and contemporary art. She has done curatorial work at various German museums and taught art theory and art history at the University of Cologne.

An van Camp is the Christopher Brown Curator of Northern European Art at the Ashmolean. Most recently, she curated Bruegel to Rubens: Great Flemish Drawings (Oxford, 2024) and co-curated Young Rembrandt (Leiden/Oxford, 2019–20). She is a member of the Editorial Board of Print Quarterly and Master Drawings.

Christian Weikop is Professor of Modern and Contemporary German Art at the University of Edinburgh. He has published extensively on 20th-century German art, including publications on Anselm Kiefer for international art institutions. He works closely with the Atelier Anselm Kiefer in Paris.