Jan Knapp was born in Chrdimi, Czech Republic in 1949. From 1970 to 1972 he studied architecture in Prague and painting at the Academy of Fine Arts in Dusseldorf. In the 70’s he immigrated to the United States (he stayed from 1972 until 1982, living mainly in New York). At the end of the 1970s he founded the “Normalgruppe” together with Milan Kunc and Peter Angermann. The group is a rare group that brings together three resident artists, Kunc from Cologne, Angermann from Nuremberg and finally, at least formally, Chrudimi and Knap from New York. Knap’s pilgrimage continued into his 1980s. First he studied theology in Rome from 1982 to 1984, then from 1984 to 1989 he lived and worked in Cologne, and finally from 1989 to 1992 he lived and worked in Modena. Currently he lives and works in Cologne, Modena and the Czech Republic.
www.ftn-books.com currently has the Centraal Museum catalog on Knap available.
