Markus Lüpertz

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Markus Lüpertz (1941 in Liberece) is a contemporary German painter. For over twenty years, he has been rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, even now the most important art academy in Germany. In the 1960s, he worked primarily in Berlin, moving on to take a professorship at Karlsruhe in the 1970s, then to Düsseldorf. During his early career as a painter, he won the 1970 Prize from Villa Romana and the 1971 "German Association of Critics Prize." From the 1980s, Lüpertz has evolved a sculptural work of increasing importance, still linked to his painting and unfathomable by current standards of "avantgarde" discussions. As a writer, he has been editing his own journal since 2003, called FRAU UND HUND - Zeitschrift für kursives Denken, of which two editions in other languages have appeared (SIGNORA E CANE, in Italian, and FEMME ET CHIEN, in French).