Innenraum - Anselm Kiefer . 3d software reenactment . The painting depicts the Mosaic Room in the New Reich Chancellery, Adolf Hitler’s government offices in Berlin, which were destroyed in 1945. Designed by the architect Albert Speer to assert the Third Reich’s historical continuity with the great ancient civilizations of Egypt, Greece, and Rome, the New Chancellery was a consciously constructed symbol of National Socialist Germany. As suggested by the Mosaic Room’s gigantic proportions, its huge grid-like skylight, it's an almost total emphasis on regular horizontal and vertical lines that rhythmically punctuate the planes of the space, the Nazis used the neo-classical style to connote authority, discipline, order, and permanence. . What does the artist mean by this? Does Kiefer monumentalize his country’s National Socialist past? Or does he criticize his contemporary moment, suggesting that Nazism spanned more than the years 1933 to 1945? Ambiguity is central to the work’s magnetism. . Innenraum Anselm Kiefer Oil, acrylic, and paper on canvas, 287.5 x 311 cm .