Wozu brauchen wir ein Anselm-Kiefer-Museum? Es ist längst noch nicht entschieden, wie Kiefers Werk vor der Kunstgeschichte bestehen wird.*
Ok, admittedly it does sound a little weird to give Kiefer his own museum while he's still alive, but of all the Big Boy German painters, I think his place in the history of postwar art is pretty secure.
This Grothe guy is no peach, though: he's decided that he wants to sell off his massive collection of contemporary German art, currently on loan to the Kunstmuseum Bonn, which would break up an important cohesive body of work and deprive Bonn of one of the few things that makes it interesting...Plus, given the recent Flick business, if I were the Berlin Senate, I wouldn't necessarily want to deal with another ego-driven collector, either.
* What do we need a Kiefer Museum for? We're a long way from knowing whether Kiefer's work will stand up to art historical scrutiny.
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