Markus lupertz biography for kids

German artist

Markus Lüpertz (born 25 April 1941) is a German painter, sculptor, graphic artist, and writer. He also publishes a magazine, and plays jazz piano. He is one of the best-known German contemporary artists. His subjects are characterized by suggestive power and archaic monumentality.

Lüpertz insists on capturing the object of representation with an archetypal statement of his existence. His art work is associated to neo-expressionism.

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Known for his eccentricity, German press has stylized him as a "painter prince".^[1]

Life and artistic career

Lüpertz was born in Reichenberg in the Reichsgau Sudetenland of Nazi-occupied Czechoslovakia (now Liberec in the Czech Republic) in 1941. His family moved to Rheydt in the Rhineland, in West Germany, when he was seven years old, in 1948.^[2] He was dismissed for an alleged lack of talent from an early apprenticeship as a painter of wine bottle labels.

His second teacher, a commercial artist,