For 54 years, the Louvre hadn't commissioned any new permanent additions to its decor until it asked Anselm Kiefer in 2007 to construct an installation that includes a monumental 30-by-15-foot canvas on a stairwell built by Napoleon's architects.
Not since Georges Braque painted the ceiling of Henry II's antechamber in 1953 had a living artist touched the walls of the institution. From the 1960s, Kiefer has reopened, agitated and healed the wounds of World War II's emotional and physical devastation. The German's billboard-size mixed-media assemblages hauntingly illustrate the agony of the human experience with faint glimmers of hope.
Six works -- three of …
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