St. St. Anselm Kiefer Wins German Peace Award for Art Confronting Past

The 58-year-old award, worth 25,000 euros ($39,000), honors Kiefer's personation of a ``destroyed lay come out of the closet, chewed up by the past and presented with a pared-down magniloquence,'' said a affirmation from the German Book Trade Connexion.