Markus Lüpertz wears handsome.
Cane with a silver knob, black hat, beige overcoat on a black suit with a fitted waistcoat, a tie clip and an oversized papal ring, a pointed beard and a keen eye, he is a sweet mix of classic and rock'n'roll.
The title of
"prince of painters" suits
him well, he who was a professor for forty years at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf and its director for twenty-eight years.
“I'm not a teacher, I'm a master, I don't have students but apprentices
,” he says in his strong voice, not really joking.
Bohemia, I am a Bohemia because I affirm
it , underlines this native in 1941 of Reichenberg, in Bohemia, today Liberec, in the Czech Republic.
Wink?
He did the scenography for
La Bohème
in 2021 for the Meiningen Opera.
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