Thu 04 Sept
|The Dutch Centre
Kiefer/Van Gogh – RA Curator talk on van Gogh’s influence on Kiefer
This talk is organised in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts where the Exhibition Kiefer/Van Gogh runs this summer. Natasha Fyffe (Genesis Future Curator) will highlight how the pioneer of Post-Impressionism has informed the subjects and techniques of Kiefer’s monumental body of works.
Time & Location
04 Sept 2025, 19:00 – 21:30
The Dutch Centre, 7 Austin Friars, London EC2N 2HA
About The Event
In 1890 Vincent van Gogh paints his final works. Seventy-two years later an eighteen-year-old Anselm Kiefer receives a travel grant to follow in the footsteps of Van Gogh, starting in the Netherlands, through to Belgium, Paris and Arles in the south of France. Kiefer was inspired by Van Gogh’s work throughout his 60-year career.
This talk is organised in collaboration with the Royal Academy of Arts where the Exhibition Kiefer/Van Gogh runs between 28 June – 26 October 2025. Natasha Fyffe (Genesis Future Curator) will highlight how the pioneer of Post-Impressionism has informed the subjects and techniques of Kiefer’s monumental paintings and sculptures which draw on history, mythology, literature, philosophy and science. This exhibition was developed in close collaboration with the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam. Read here this exhibition's Review in the Observer
Doors open 6.30pm for 7.00pm start
Image caption:
Vincent van Gogh – Field with Irises near Arles (detail), 1888Oil on canvas. 54 x 65 cm
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam (Vincent van Gogh Foundation)