German infantryman and soon-to-be-famous artist Paul Klee painted aircraft wings with schemes that looked like fine art. The Cubist style in paintings like The Knifegrinder, by Kazimir Malevich ...

Anselm Kiefer’s seven-ton “Breaking of the Vessels” is one of the artist’s many manic dissections of German history. It’s a shocking thing to come across in an art museum. Anselm Kiefer ...