Lüpertz opened Galerie Grossgörschen 35, an artist’s collaboration space, with an exhibition of his Dithyrambic paintings titled “Dithyrambische Malerei.” These Dithyrambic paintings were inspired by Lüpertz’s reading of Friedrich Nietzche’s Dionysian poetry. A dithyramb is an ancient Greek hymn sung and danced in honor of Dionysus, the god of wine and fertility. As an adjective dithyrambic has come to mean, “wildly enthusiastic”. Lüpertz’s works from this period gives form to this never-ending intoxication — works he once described as “imposing construction on already existing objects”. In 1966 he wrote “Kunst, die im Wege steht. Dithyrambisches Manifest (Art which Disturbs. Dithyrambic Manifesto)" followed by “Die Anmut des 20. Jahrhunderts wird durch die von mir erfundene Dithyrambe sichtbar gemacht (The Dithyramb that I Invented Makes the 20th Century’s Charm Perceptible)" in 1968. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Markus_L%C3%BCpertz)