Editing Anselm Kiefer (section)

===Photography===
Kiefer began his career creating performances and documenting them in photographs titled ''Occupations and Heroische Sinnbilder (Heroic Symbols)''.  Dressed in his father's [[Wehrmacht]] uniform, Kiefer mimicked the [[Nazi salute]] in various locations in France, Switzerland and Italy. He asked Germans to remember and to acknowledge the loss to their culture through the mad [[xenophobia]] of the [[Third Reich]]. In 1969, at Galerie am Kaiserplatz, [[Karlsruhe]], he presented his first single exhibition "Besetzungen (Occupations)" with a series of photographs of controversial political actions.<ref name =nyt>{{cite web| url = https://www.nytimes.com/2020/02/12/magazine/anselm-kiefer-art.html| title = Into the Black Forest with the Greatest Living Artist| author = Knausgaard, Karl Ove| date = 12 February 2020| access-date = 14 February 2020|newspaper = The New York Times}}</ref>