Early Life and the Genesis of Capitalist Realism Konrad Lüg, born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1939 as Konrad Fischer, emerged from the post-war landscape of a nation grappling with reconstruction and a burgeoning consumer culture. His artistic trajectory was inextricably linked to this environment, a world rapidly shifting away from austerity towards an embrace of material goods and mass media. Lüg’s early studies at the Düsseldorf Ac…