Anselm Keifer

Anselm Keifer's painting "Aschenblume" was influenced by the Paul Celan poem "I am alone." The majority of Paul Celan's work is about death, World War II, and the Holocaust. You can utilize the poem in order to assist in the interpretation of the Keifer's artwork. "I am alone, I put the ash flower
in the glass of ripened black, sister mouth,
the word you speak lives on before the windows
and silent climbs me, just as I had dreamt.
I stand in the full bloom of the faded hour
and save a resin for a bird delayed:
It hears the snowflake on its life-red feather,
the ice-grain in its beak, and gets through winter." Within the first few words of the poem you get the words "Ash flower" and that is Anselm Keifer's inspiration. I interpret Keifer's