KIEFER,ANSELM. — Hoffmann von Fallersleben auf Helgoland.

Groningen, Groninger Museum, 1980. [80] unnumbered pages with b./w. photographs. H.cloth. 4to. - Min. shelfwear & very sl. soiled.An artist's book by the German visual artist Anselm Kiefer, published by the Groninger Museum in 1980 in a limited edition of 500 copies. The work reflects Kiefer's deep interest in Germany's complex and dramatic national history. The book features black-and-white photographs of empty rooms and abandoned objects; these images serve as evocations drawn from memory. The photographs quietly and poignantly reveal traces of a fraught past that can only be surmised. The title refers to the 19th-century poet August Heinrich Hoffmann von Fallersleben (author of the German national anthem) and the island of Heligoland, which holds charged symbolic significance in German history.