He was one of the children born during WW2 who made up the 'Berlin School' of painting in France during the 1970s, which included Anselm Kiefer, Georg Baselitz, Sigmar Polke, A.R. Penck and Gerhard Richter – but bizarrely few people have heard of Markus Lüpertz. In Germany he's one of the big hitters of neo-expressionism, and one of the foremost figures leading a young generation who are resistant to conceptual, informal, abstract art. This spring, the Musée d'Art Moderne is putting him in his rightful place with a big retrospective where his dented, dislocated and vibrantly colourful works suggest as much tribal art or antiquity as they do German expressionism.
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