Celebrating 112 years of the Ethiopian-German Friendship.
On this date on March 7, 1905, Ethiopia and Germany entered a Treaty of Friendship.
Klaus Mertens (b. 1950) is a German contemporary artist, currently living in Berlin/Germany and Addis Ababa/Ethiopia.
Mertens started teaching at the Addis Ababa University, Ale School of Fine Arts and Design (ASFAD) in 2010, where he founded a new class for lithography. Since 2013 he established a partnership between the Ale School of fine Arts and Design and the Hochschule für Bildende Künste Dresden/Germany (HfBK). Now he coordinates the exchange program between both Academies.
Celebrating 112 years of the Ethiopian-German Friendship.
