引言在德国新表现主义艺术家中,安塞尔姆·基弗(Anselm Kiefer)是颇为晦涩的一位,他的作品之所以难以理解,就在于观看者并不能轻易地从中直接识别出内涵。就其图像而言,艺术家总是以一种象征或超验的方式将作品的内涵隐藏在图像背后,而极少以叙事性的方式来直接表达。就作品的主题而言,基弗的作品深深地根植于本民族——日耳曼文化的历史语境之中,或许在面对本土文化语境(比如德国、北欧等)中的 Introduction Anselm Kiefer, one of the neo-expressionist artists in Germany, is quite an obscure one. The reason why his works are hard to understand is that viewers can not easily identify the connotations directly. In its image, the artist always hides the content of the work behind the image in a symbolic or transcendental way, and rarely directly expresses the narrative. As far as the theme of the work is concerned, Kiefer’s work is deeply rooted in the historical context of its own ethnic group, Germanic culture, perhaps in the face of the local cultural context (eg Germany, Northern Europe, etc.)