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Ellsworth Kelly (American, 1923)

Berlin Totem, 2008, stainless steel, 40 feet x 4 feet x 8 inches

“I am honored to be able to support FAPE and its important mission to bring American art to the world through our embassies. In 2008, my ‘Berlin Totem’, a forty-foot-high stainless steel sculpture, was installed in the courtyard of the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. I was commissioned by the German government, in 2000, to install a work in the Bundestag at the Paul Löbe Haus in Berlin, so it was exciting to continue the conversation of my work by contributing to our government’s building in this historic capital.”

In 2006, FAPE commissioned Ellsworth Kelly to create a sculpture for the U.S. Embassy in Berlin. On February 13, 2008, one of the largest mobile cranes in Europe was used to hoist the artist’s work over the building for permanent placement in the courtyard garden.

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