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Born in 1941 in Böhmen, the artist works as a painter, set designer, graphic artist, sculptor, and poet. An avowed Catholic, he is one of the most famous German visual artists and styles himself as an eccentric painter. Lüpertz lives and works in Berlin, Karlsruhe, Düsseldorf, and Florence. His works, often considered to belong to the genre of neo-expressionism, distinguish themselves through their suggestive power and archaic monumentality. Lüpertz achieves this effect by striving to turn the image or represented object into an archteypal expression of existence.