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Kiefer, Anselm(encyclopedia)

Kiefer, Anselm (sh) and otozoum (medicine)


Kiefer, Anselm (sh)




born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen, Ger.

German painter.

In 1970 he studied under the conceptual artist Joseph Beuys. In such huge paintings as Germany's Spiritual Heroes (1973) he used visual symbols, somber colours, and naive drawing to comment with irony and sarcasm on Germany's tragic past. In the 1980s his colossal paintings acquired an intense physical presence by means of perspectival devices and unusual textures. He is one of the most prominent figures in late 20th-century Neo-Expressionism.


otozoum (medicine)


otozoum
<paleontology> An extinct genus of huge vertebrates, probably dinosaurs, known only from four-toed tracks in Triassic sandstones.

Origin: NL, fr. Gr, a fabled giant + an animal.

Source: Websters Dictionary