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The wide ranging, often large-scale output of the acclaimed German artist Anselm Kiefer has many noted influences — art, literature, history, philosophy, mythology — but the Royal Academy’s exhibition explores one of his earliest: Vincent van Gogh. As a child, Kiefer felt connected to the noted post-impressionist, and at age 18, he used a travel grant to follow van Gogh’s footsteps through the Netherlands, Belgium, Paris and Arles. Paint𝓀ings and drawings by both artists come together in the exhibition, plus recent, never-before-exhibited works by Kiefer and a new sculpture depicting a sunflower created specifically for the exhibition. The juxtaposition reveals how Kiefer’s monumental works accord with van Gogh’s style — notably with high horizon lines, deep panoramas and a preference for painterly surface texture.

^{Anselm Kiefer, “Nevermore,” 2014. Photograph by Charles Duprat. © Anselm Kiefer}