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Jiří Georg Dokoupil is one of the most internationally famous and renowned artists of his generation. He was born in Krnov in former Czechoslovakia in 1954 and emigrated to Germany with his family as a child. He began by studying Fine Arts at Köln International School of Design in 1976 first and then at Cooper University in New York. As a founding member of the Cologne “Mülheimer Freiheit” group of artists, he rejected the reduced, strict and unapproachable nature of minimal and conceptual art at that time. His orientation towards a neoexpressionist and striking painting style largely …