Markus Lüpertz

The Fallen Warrior, 1994, in Bonn

Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941 in Reichenberg, now Liberec) is a contemporary German painter, sculptor, writer, art educator, and jazz pianist.

Career

In the 1960s, Lüpertz worked primarily in Berlin, moving on to take a professorship at Karlsruhe at the Academy of Fine Arts Karlsruhe in the 1970s, then to Düsseldorf where he was director of the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, an art academy in Germany for over 20 years .^[1]

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).

In 2011, Lüpertz exhibited a new body of work entitled Pastoral Thoughts at the Michael Werner gallery in New York City. According to the brochure, these are "New works by the celebrated and controversial German artist [which] explore themes of history and abstraction in paintings derived from landscape motifs." The exhibition was labeled: "is the artist’s first major New York showing since 2005," and was accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue.

References

1. Lewitan, Louis (6 January 2011). "Ich bin einfach aus der Garnison spaziert". Zeit. Retrieved 16 June 2011.