
Caspar David Friedrich | TUSSLE
Contemporary artist Anselm Kiefer publicly, illegally, performs Nazi salutes in each of his Occupations (1969) performances against various German backdrops. Born in 1945 and raised in West Germany, Kiefer confronts the atrocities of World War II and the Holocaust, questioning the often oversimplified and abnegating motivations behind postwar Germany’s imperative of vergangenheitsbewältigung (“overcoming the past”).