Lüpertz, Markus (b.1941)
Creator details
- Name
- Lüpertz, Markus (b.1941)
- Nationality
- German
- Biography
- Emigrated to the West, to Rheydt, Rheinland with his family in 1948. Studied at the Werkkunstschule Krefeld with Laurens Goosen in 1956 and thereafter worked variously as a coalminer and road builder. In 1962 he moved to Berlin and began a cycle of paintings he called Dithyrambischen Malerei" and in the 1960s writes two manifestos based on these works. In the 1980s Lüpertz produced stage designs
