Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941); contemporary German painter, sculptor, poet, writer, professor of art, and jazz pianist. Markus Lüpertz was born in Liberec, Czech Republic (formerly Reichenberg, Bohemia) on April 25, 1941. His family emigrated to Rheydt, Rhineland (formerly West Germany) in 1948. Studying under Laurens Goossens, Lüpertz attended the School of Applied Arts in Krefeld beginning in 1956. Lüpertz painted his "Crucifixion Paintings (Kreuzigungsbilder)" during an educational stay at the Romenesque abbey of Maria Laach, on Lake Laach in Rhineland-Palatine. He then Lüpertz paused his studies and worked as a coal miner and in road construction for a year. He resumed his studies in Krefeld and then went on to study at the Academy of Arts in Düsseldorf until 1961 when he traveled to Paris and began actively working as an artist. In 1962 Lüpertz moved to West Berlin, where he began his “Dithyrambic” series of paintings in 1962 and his “Donald Duck” paintings — in response to paintings by Franz Kline and Willem de Kooning — in 1963. Lüpertz opened Galerie Grossgörschen 35, an artist’s collaboration space, with an exhibition of his Dithyrambic paintings titled “Dithyrambische Malerei.” ....In May 2017, The Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and The Phillips Collection will open two in-depth, collaborative exhibitions of works by Lüpertz. The Hirshhorn Museum’s exhibition will be titled “Markus Lüpertz: Threads of History” and will focus on work spanning from 1962 to 1975 in the context of post-war Germany. The Phillips Collection’s “Markus Lüpertz” will be a retrospective of the artist’s five-decade career. Complimenting these historic exhibitions, Michael Werner Gallery will show “Markus Lüpertz – New Paintings” in New York on May 2017. Markus Lüpertz currently lives and works in Düsseldorf and Berlin and is represented by the Michael Werner Gallery (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_L%C3%BCpertz) undefined

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