Markus Lüpertz

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Markus Lüpertz (born Reichenberg, 25 April 1941) is a contemporary German sculptor.

For over twenty years, he has been rector of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, an 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." As a writer, he has been editing his own journal since 2003, called Frau und Hund of which two editions in other languages have appeared (Signora e cane, in Italian, and Femme et Chien, in French).