Famous People with Name Anselm

Anselm Ahlfors            Origin/Culture/Country: Finnish

Anselm Ahlfors: was a Finnish wrestler and Olympic medalist in Greco-Roman wrestling.Ahlfors competed at the 1924 Summer Olympics in Paris where he received a silver medal in Greco-Roman wrestling, the bantamweight class.[1]

Anselm Of Canterbury            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Anselm Of Canterbury: was a Benedictine monk, a philosopher, and a prelate of the church who held the office of Archbishop of Canterbury from 1093 to 1109. Called the founder of scholasticism, he is famous as the originator of the ontological argument for the existence of God.

Anselm Reyle            Origin/Culture/Country: German

Anselm Reyle: is an artist based in Berlin. He is known for his often large-scale abstract paintings and found-object sculptures using alumnium foil, acrylic, neon colours, and mirrors. Working with a studio of assistants and using a limited set of painting processes and compositions, Reyle produces a high volume of paintings.[1] In his large-scale paintings, sculptures, and painted reliefs, Reyle deals with the modernistic vocabulary of abstract painting (Abstract Expressionism, Hard-edge painting, Art Informel and Op art), while exploring the union between the mundane and the highly seductive. However, his works go beyond a mere postmodernistic-ironical allusion.