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Anselm Kiefer, known for abstract paintings of charred-seeming, symbolical landscapes referencing Germany's history, was born in 1945 in Donaueschingen (Baden-Württemberg), Germany. When he was six years old, he moved with his family to Otterdorf where he attended grammar school. In 1965, he began the study of law and Romance languages at the Albert Ludwigs University, in Freiburg in Breisgau and also spent time in Paris.
From 1966 to 1970, he studied art with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the Staatliche Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Freiburg and Karlsruhe, and from
1970 - 1972 studied with Joseph Beuys at the Dusseldorf Academy. From 1991 - 1993, he travelled to India, Mexico and China and the U.S.A., and then settled in Barjac, France where he established a studio.
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS
1978 - First one-man show in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Bern
1980 - German pavilion at the Venice Biennale provoked considerable controversy
1984 - One-man show at the Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem)
1987 - 1989 - A travelling exhibition in the U.S.A.
1988 - Acquired a former brickworks in Höpfingen (near Heidelberg in the Odenwald); planned to install his major project Zweistromland there
1991 - One-man show at the Nationalgalerie in Berlin; presentation of his Books,
1969-1990, in the Kunsthalle Tübingen, the Kunstverein München and the Kunsthaus Zürich
1997 - Himmel-Erde (Heaven-Earth), Museo Correr, Venice
1999 - Works on Paper in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2000 - Chevirat Ha-Kelim (Breaking of the Vessels), an installation of his works created specially for the Chapelle de La Salpêtrière, Paris
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