Markus Lupertz Biography
Markus Lüpertz (Reichenberg, 25 April 1941) is a German painter, sculptor and photographer. Markus Lüpertz was born in Reichenberg, in German-speaking Bohemia (now Liberec in the Czech Republic), on 25 April 1941. In 1948 he moved with his family to Rheydt, Germany. He studied at the Artistic-Business College in Krefeld and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and then moved to West Berlin in 1963. In 1964, together with his artist friends Karl Horst Hödicke, Bernd Koberling and Lambertz Maria Wintersberger, he founded the gallery "Grossgörschen 35 ", where he held his first solo exhibition. In 1970 he won the Villa Romana Prize, which allowed him to work in Italy, in Florence, for a year, then, in 1973, he inaugurated his retrospective at the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Baden-Baden. In 1974 he began teaching at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe. In the 1970s he held solo exhibitions in museums such as the Kunsthalle in Bern, the Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum in Eindhoven and the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London. He then participates in numerous important collective exhibitions. In 1986 he became a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. In Italy, in the 80s and 90s, he worked with the Cleto Polcina Gallery in Rome where he exhibited with artists such as Enzo Cucchi, Omar Galliani, Gian Ruggero Manzoni, Gerard Garouste, forming friendships with them. In 1990 he received the Lovis Corinth Award as artist of the year. A retrospective of his work was held at the Reina Sofia Center for Modern Art in Madrid in 1991. In 1996 he held an anthology at the Art Collection North-Rhine-Westphalia in Düsseldorf and in 1997 at the Kunsthalle of the Hypo-Culture Foundation in Munich, an exhibition which was subsequently presented in Barmen and Wuppertal. In 1997/98 his works were present in the exhibition "Deutschlandbilder: Kunst aus einem geteilten Terra" held in the Martin-Gropius in Berlin.
