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U.S. socialite Paris Hilton poses during a promotional appearance for German internet company 'GoYellow' in Munich May 20, 2005.

REUTERS/
Alexandra Winkler

Reuters - May 20 3:54 AM

Newly appointed German chancellor Angela Merkel takes the oath of office in the parliament in Berlin Tuesday, Nov. 22, 2005. A so-called grand coalition of Christian Democrats and Social Democrats elected Angela Merkel as German chancellor earlier the day.

(AP Photo/Fritz Reiss)

AP - Nov 22 6:31 AM

The United States is hopeful that new German Chancellor Angela Merkel (R) with US President George W. Bush, will help make all of Europe a more reliable partner for Washington, analysts said here ahead of her foreign minister's first US trip on Monday.

(AFP/Pool/File/Julia Fassbender)

AFP/Pool/File - Sat Nov 26,11:42 PM ET

NATO Secretary General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer(R) welcomes new German Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel for a bilateral meeting at NATO headquarters, in Brussels. Merkel stressed the importance of NATO as a pillar of stability.

(AFP/BELGA/Herwig Vergult)

AFP/BELGA - Nov 24 12:01 AM

Actress Paris Hilton takes notes on the spring 2006 Diane von Furstenberg collection during Fashion Week in New York on September 11, 2005. The biannual New York Fashion Week continues until September 16.

Reuters - Sun Sep 11,10:24 PM ET

REUTERS/Seth Wenig

Paris Hilton sits next to her father Richard, left, as she takes a photograph during Vienna's traditional Opera Ball, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, at Vienna's State Opera.

(AP Photo/Leonhard Foeger, Pool)

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AP - Thu Feb 15, 8:08 PM ET

Paris Hilton as a special guest in Viennese Opera Ball, on Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007, at the hotel Hilton in Vienna. She was wearing yellow gown, with her hand resembled to her pose when visited Germany in 2005 that was then used for the "Paris Gold 4" painting.

caption by the painter

photo: (AP Photo/Lilli Strauss)
AP via Yahoo! News - Feb 15 1:02 PM

Paris Hilton, center, poses for photographers with her host at the Viennese Opera Ball businessman Richard Lugner, right, and his wife Christian Lugner, left, prior to a news conference in Vienna, Thursday, Feb. 15, 2007. Lugner, a 74-year-old real estate and construction mogul, each year invites a celebrity to attend the prestigious event with him and his wife.

(AP Photo/Hans Punz)

AP via Yahoo! News - Feb 15 6:04 AM

A photo of Paris Hilton by Oliver Weiken/EPA at Indonesian famous newspaper Kompas May 27, 2005, inspired the painter to make the painting of "Paris Gold 4".

Paris Gold 4

70 x 89 cm

acrylic on canvas

2005

The working of above painting "Paris Gold 4" began on September 15, 2005. The body was from a photo in Kompas newspaper by Oliver Weiken/EPA when Paris Hilton was launching the Go-Yellow internet company during her visit to Germany, with always wearing yellow dresses, All Yellow Days in Germany. The head was from a photo by Seth Wenig/REUTERS during Diane von Furstenberg collection Fashion Week in New York on September 11, 2005.

Around the time of the production of this painting, a historical moment happened in Germany whereas Angela Merkel has been elected as the first woman chancelor.

On September 18, 2005, Angela Merkel's political party CDU/CSU and Gerhard Schröder's political party SPD went head-to-head in the national elections, with the CDU/CSU winning 35.3% (CDU 27.8%/CSU 7.5%) of the second votes to the SPD's 34.2%. Neither the SPD-Green coalition nor the CDU/CSU and its preferred coalition partners, the Free Democratic Party, held enough seats to form a majority in the Bundestag, and both Schröder and Merkel claimed victory. A Grand Coalition between the CDU/CSU and SPD faced the challenge that both parties demanded the chancellorship. However, after three weeks of negotiations, the two parties reached a deal whereby Merkel would become Chancellor and the SPD would hold 8 of the 16 seats in the cabinet. The coalition deal was approved by both parties at party conferences on November 14, 2005.

On November 22, 2005, Angela Merkel was elected Chancellor by the majority of delegates (397 to 217) in the newly assembled Bundestag, while 51 members of the governing coalition voted against her.

She becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany, the first former citizen of the German Democratic Republic to lead the reunited Germany and the first woman to lead Germany since it became a modern nation-state in 1871. She is also, as of 2006, the youngest person to be chancellor since the Second World War. Merkel, considered by the Forbes Magazine to be the most powerful woman in the world, is only the third woman to serve on the G8 (after Margaret Thatcher of the UK and Kim Campbell of Canada) and in 2007 became the second woman to chair a G8 summit after Thatcher.

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