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Jan Knap was born in 1949 in Chrudimi in the Czech Republic. Knap studied architecture in Prague and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf in 1970-'72. Read the full biography

Jan Knap was born in 1949 in Chrudimi in the Czech Republic. Knap studied architecture in Prague and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf in 1970-'72. In the 1970s he moved to the United States (he remained there from 1972 to 1982, living mostly in New York). Towards the end of the Seventies he founded the Normal group with Milan Kunc and Peter Angermann; an anomalous grouping that brought together three resident artists, respectively, Kunc in Cologne, Angermann in Nuremberg and finally Knap, at least officially, in Chrudimi and New York. In the 1980s Knap's pilgrimage continued through significant stages: he studied theology in Rome from 1982 to 1984, from 1984 to 1989 he lived and worked in Cologne, and finally from 1989 to 1992 he moved to Modena. He lives and works in Koln, Modena and the Czech Republic.