# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DTQqBlwjw9Y
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- **Posted:** 2026-01-08T18:46:20.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

“As is often the case for American culture, it takes an outsider to gild our mythos, to redeem the dismissed as truly magnificent. German artist Anselm Kiefer has pulled this off for the Mississippi River and its surrounding territory,” writes Eileen G’Sell (lipsmarts) in her review of “Anselm Kiefer: Becoming the Sea” at the Saint Louis Art Museum. A dazzling tour de force, the Neo-Expressionist’s first major US museum show in 20 years provides a sublime instance of his inveterate (perhaps shameless) Romanticism, in which the artist’s nostalgia for the Rhine River of his childhood flows into homages to the Mississippi as a symbol of both industry and creative freedom.

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Anselm Kiefer, “Der Rhein” (2024), emulsion, oil, acrylic, shellac, gold leaf, and sediment of electrolysis on canvas (photo Eileen G'Sell/Hyperallergic)

#AnselmKiefer #Painting #NeoExpressionism #Romanticism #MississippiRiver #SaintLouisArtMuseum

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anselmkiefer, saintlouisartmuseum, painting, mississippiriver, romanticism, neoexpressionism

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