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oct. 13: kiefer book covers - smartphone page frank auerbach jasper johns |  Quote But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. 1951 - Moved to Ottersdorf; attended grammar school in Rastatt 1965 - School-leaving examination; started studying law and Romance languages at the Albert Ludwigs University, Freiburg in Breisgau; spent time in Paris 1966 - 70 - Studied art with Peter Dreher and Horst Antes at the Staatliche Hochschule der Bildenden Künste, Freiburg and Karlsruhe 1969 - Series of photographs of his controversial political action Besetzungen (Occupations); first one-man exhibition at the Galerie am Kaiserplatz, Karlsruhe from 1971 - Lived in Hornbach (near Heidelberg in the Odenwald); travelled extensively in Europe, the USA and the Middle East 1973 - Notung (Nothung), Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne 1978 - First one-man show in Switzerland at the Kunsthalle Bern 1980 - Verbrennen, verholzen, versenken, versanden for the German pavilion at the Venice Biennale provoked considerable controversy 1984 - Highly successful one-man show at the Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (subsequently transferred to the Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris and the Israel Museum, Jerusalem); first trip to Israel 1987 - 1989 - International success with 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 1991 - 1993 - Left Germany; travelled to India, Mexico and China; brief stay in the U.S.A. since 1992/93 - Settled in Barjac (Cévennes), France; started to transform his 35-hectare studio compound La Ribaute into a Gesamtkunstwerk which can literally be entered 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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