Anselm Kiefer created The Renowned Orders of the Night, an installation associated with the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao.
Kiefer's work combines painting, sculpture, and architectural scale. The installation presents a monumental image of a reclining or recumbent figure beneath a dark, star-filled sky, using materials and imagery connected with memory, mythology, history, and mortality.
The work belongs to Kiefer's long engagement with German cultural history and with the symbolic power of landscapes and the night sky. His art frequently incorporates unusual materials, including lead, straw, ash, and plant matter, to give paintings and installations physical weight.
The title is sometimes confused with Kiefer's other large-scale works in the Bilbao museum. The Renowned Orders of the Night is specifically identified with the 1996 installation and its dark celestial imagery.