Anselm Kiefer
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Anselm Kiefer (born 1945-03-08) 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.
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- All painting but also all literature...is merely a process of going round and round something inexpressible...
- What interests me is the transformation, not the monument. I don't construct ruins... A ruin is not a catastrophe. It is a moment when things can start again. A treasure we all admire, a gift to the Earth.