When he was 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through ...

AMSTERDAM — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France. Now, more than half a ...

(AP Photo/Peter Dejong) AMSTERDAM (AP) — When he was just 17 years old, German artist Anselm Kiefer retraced the footsteps of Vincent van Gogh from the Netherlands through Belgium and into France.

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. It’s a bold artist who places himself alongside Van Gogh, but Anselm Kiefer never lacked audacity.

Kiefer's sometimes bleak work, rooted in growing up in post-World War II Germany, might not immediately feel closely related to Van Gogh's vibrant and richly colored landscapes and vases of ...