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On 26 January, 2005 the French Academy in Rome opened an exhibition dedicated to the work of German artist Anselm Kiefer. The
exposition will present the vision of this artist around a specific theme: the most representative female figures of classical mythology and German history. The exhibition will present a wide range of art-works, most of them unpublished and created in loco exclusively for the French Academy at Rome - sketches, paintings, books, art-installations and sculptures will tell us about hist
Anselm Kiefer (born March 8, 1945, Donaueschingen) is a German painter and sculptor. He studied with Joseph Beuys during the 1970s. His works incorporate materials like straw, ash, clay, lead, and shellac. The poems of Paul Celan have played a role in developing Kiefer's themes of German history and the horror of the Holocaust, as have the theological concepts of Kabbalah.
Kiefer ranks among the best-known and most successful, but also most disputed German artists after World War II.[citation needed] In hi
