Markus Lüpertz
(Germany)
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Markus Lüpertz is one of the most acclaimed current German painters. He states his birthplace to be Liberec (Bohemia). After his studies at the Werkkunstschule in Krefeld and the State Academy in Düsseldorf, he moved to Berlin in 1962. The expressive figurative pictures of the painter that were in direct opposition to the abstract tendencies of that time, gained gradually huge acclaim. In 1983, Lüpertz was given the Professorial Chair at the Summer Academy in Salzburg and in autumn 1987, he became the Rector of the State Artistic Academy in Düsseldorf. He holds this function till now.
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