ID: 700008378 Page link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/cona/700008378	Record Type: Movable Work
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Palm Sunday (installation (visual work); Anselm Kiefer (German painter, born 1945) ; 2006; Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom); AR00038)

Note: The installation features a 30 foot long palm tree, cast in fiberglass and resin, surrounded by 43 glass framed painting compositions. True to Keifer’s pallet of using earth, organic matter, roots, and flowers in his vitrine like paintings, conveying spiritual and mythical territories.

Titles:

Palm Sunday (preferred,C,U,RD,English-P,U,U)

Palmsonntag (C,U,OR,German-P,U,U)

Catalog Level: item

Work Types:

installation (visual work) [300047896] (preferred)

..... (Objects Facet, Visual and Verbal Communication (hierarchy name), Visual Works (hierarchy name), visual works (works), <visual works by material or technique>)

Classifications:

performance art (preferred)

Creation Date: 2006

Creator Display:

Anselm Kiefer (German painter, born 1945) [preferred,VP]

artist Kiefer, Anselm (German painter, born 1945) [500047395]

Locations:

Current: Tate (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) [500301641] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Repository Numbers: AR00038

Credit Line: ARTIST ROOMS Acquired jointly with the National Galleries of Scotland through The d'Offay Donation with assistance from the National Heritage Memorial Fund and the Art Fund 2008

Other: Co-owner: National Galleries of Scotland (Edinburgh, Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom) [500307791] Corporate Bodies (Corp. Body)

Display Materials: Palm tree and 43 works on fibreboard with clay, paint, shellac, adhesive, metal, palm fronds, fabric and paper

	Cocos nucifera (species) [300375429]
	.......(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Liliopsida (class), Arecales (order), Arecaceae (family), Cocos (genus))

	palm leaf (material) [300011894]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by origin>, biological material, plant material, leaf (plant material))

	fiberboard [300014198]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

	clay [300010439]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	paint (coating) [300015029]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by form>)

	shellac [300014918]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>, coating (material), <coating by composition or origin>, varnish, <varnish by composition>, spirit varnish)

	adhesive [300014801]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by function>)

	metal [300010900]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by composition>, inorganic material)

	cloth [300162391]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>, textile materials, <textile materials by form>)

	paper (fiber product) [300014109]
	.......(Materials Facet, Materials (hierarchy name), materials (substances), <materials by form>, <materials by physical form>, <fiber and fiber by product>, <fiber by product>)

Dimensions: 43 works, overall display dimensions variable

Cultures:

German (preferred)

General Subject:

botanical (preferred)

found objects

Specific Subjects:

	Palm Sunday [300069638]
	.....(Activities Facet, Events (hierarchy name), events (activities), cultural events, holidays, religious holidays, Christian holidays) (AAT)

	coconut palm tree (species) [300375429]
	.....(Agents Facet, Living Organisms (hierarchy name), living organisms (entities), Eukaryota (domain), Plantae (kingdom), Angiospermae (division), Liliopsida (class), Arecales (order), Arecaceae (family), Cocos (genus)) (AAT)

List/Hierarchical Position:

..... Movable Works

.......... Movable Works by class: performance art or installations

Sources and Contributors:
Palm Sunday	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014
Palmsonntag	........ [VP]
	........ Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Subject: ....... [VP]

....................... Tate Gallery [online] (1999-) accessed 8 April 2014

Note:
English	..... [VP]
	..... Art Gallery of Ontario [online] (2000-) artjetset.com, "Anselm Keifer Palmsonntag at the Art Gallery of Ontario"