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Personal Life
>AK on life, legacy and Barjac (Do you have full citations for these sources?Jrc05680 (talk) 01:19, 23 April 2019 (UTC))
Anson Kiefer was born into a strong Roman Catholic background to parents Cilly and Albert Kiefer on March 8 1945, in the town of Donaueschingen, in the Black Forest. Kiefer grew up sharing a tiny room with his parents, in a world where evidence of the devastation resulting from the fall of the third Reich, was everywhere.
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After his time as an officer in Wehrmacht, Keifer’s father worked as an art teacher, exposing his son to art early in life. Despite early artistic inclinations, after graduating high school, Kiefer would study the law and romance languages at the Albert-Ludwigs Univsitat (1965-6) before ultimately switching to painting.
>Grove Art Online
It was there he studied as a pupil of the painter Peter Dreher. In 1969, he studied under Horst Antes at the Staatliche akademie der Bildenden Kunste in Karlsruhe. In 1970 he moved to the Staatliche kuns akademie in Dusseldorf where he met fellow artist Joseph Beuys, whom he would have several influential intellectual exchanges.
In 1969, he traveled through Switzerland, Italy, and France.
In 1971, Kiefer moved to the rural town of Walldurn-Hornback in south western Germany where he would remain before finally settling in France in 1992.