A contemporary German artist born in Czechoslovakia, Jiri George Dokoupil lives and works in his native country as well as Spain, Germany and occasionally New York City. He is known for his abstract artwork, many of them ink drawings and etchings, some for illustrations. Some of his pieces are large scale abstract expressionist paintings and often arranged in groupings to challenge viewers emotionally and/or politcally and socially, they can range from ugly to beautiful---depending upon one's perspective.

He was born in Bruntal (Krnov), which was formerly Czechoslovakia, but in 1968, he fled to Germany when the Soviet army invaded his country.

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