Artist: Sigmar Polke (1941 - )
Nationality: German
Movement: Pop Art
Media: Painting,Photography
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Biography:
After his family left East Germany to escape Communism in 1953, Sigmar Polke settled with them in West Germany where he was exposed to the art world. He worked as an apprentice in a stained glass factory and then enrolled in the Dusseldorf Kunstakademie Art School at the age of twenty. He began producing paintings that used photographs. He then published a portfolio of fourteen photographs that were images of his sculptures and performances. Polke was a self-taught photographer who produced thousands of photographs and several films. In the 1970’s, he traveled extensively throughout Paris, New York, Afghanistan, and Brazil. From 1970 to 1978, Polke taught art in Germany before settling in Cologne.

Artworks in Museum Collections: (9)
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© Sigmar Polke ; Sigmar Polke, German, Born in 1941 Untitled 1988 Spraypaint, tusche, and
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© Sigmar Polke ; Sigmar Polke, German, Born in 1941 Lager 1982 Acrylic and spattered
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Sans titre (2001/08/07) by POLKE Sigmar
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Der Jungbrunnen, Sigmar Polke (Germany, Oels, Neiderschlesien, born 1941-2-13) , 1984, Gelatin-silver print, toned
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Untitled, Sigmar Polke (Germany, Oels, Neiderschlesien, born 1941-2-13) , circa 1984, Gelatin-silver print, altered
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Sigmar Polke - Bunnies 1966 synthetic polymer on Hirshhorn Museum German
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Sigmar Polke - Stairwell 1982 synthetic emulsion o Hirshhorn Museum German
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Sigmar Polke - Clouds (Wolken) 1989 mixed media on canva Dallas Museum of Art German
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Sigmar Polke - Hope is: Wanting to Pull Clouds 1992 polyester resin and National Gallery of Art German

Artnews Articles and Exhibition Information: (23)
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Hamburger Kunsthalle: Siegmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974
Alongside his paintings, Polke has been creating a graphic œuvre of considerable dimensions and particular significance since the early ...
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art: Sigmar Polke: Music of Unclear Origin
This exhibition, toured by the Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations in Stuttgart, presents a group of forty recent gouaches that form a distinct and lively series. This ...
Museum for Contemporary Art | ZKM: Sigmar Polke Works from the Froehlich Collection
By means of his imaginative, subtle exploration into the possible ways of perceiving reality, Polke boldly and playfully re-defines what a picture is capable of achieving. With pointed wit, he communicates to the spectator that doubts about the im...
Modern Museum: In the Power of Painting
One common source for Warhol, Polke and Richter is both the thing as an object and images in the media. Twombly and Marden have a more abstract point of departure, gradually producing something like a sign. Bleckner's work seems to emerge from his...
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art: Sigmar Polka: Alhemist
However, Louisiana does not plan its exhibitions according to Capitals art compass. The museum has its own instruments of navigation, but on these, too, the needles have been pointing to Sigmar P...
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt: Change of Scene XVIII
New works / New rooms by:
Gilbert & George (*1943 & 1942), Katharina Fritsch (*1956), Felix Gonzales-Torres (*1957-1996), Franz Gertsch (*1930), Rosemarie Trockel (*1952), Markus Raetz (*1941), Barbara Klemm (*1939), Robert Gober (*1954), An...
Frye Art Museum: An American in Europe: The Photography Collection of Baroness Jeane von Oppenheim from the Norton Museum of Art
The exciting presentation includes the work of several prominent pre-war European photographers published in Alfred Stieglitz's groundbreaking magazine Camerawork; a very significant group o...
Museum of Modern Art: Gerhard Richter: 40 Years of Painting
Although Richter has been a well-known and greatly respected figure in Europe for many years, his achievement has been comparatively slow to come to the attention of the general public in the United States. Ranging from photography-based pictu...
ZONE: Contemporary Art: Jack Sal: Re/Vision
ZONE is presenting a cross section of Sal‚s work, including a chapel-like space of large-scale paintings, using gesso and silk surgical tape, created specifically for this installation. Minimalist yet profoundly humanistic, his work has a handmade...
Kunsthalle Bern: Jutta Koether - Aenderungen Aller Art
As critic and editor of the music and pop culture magazine Spex and as performance artist and musician, however, Koether did not fit the typical image of the art scene of that time. Since the start of her artistic career Jutta Koether has sought t...
Museum of Modern Art: Rober Storr Promoted to Senior Curator at the MOMA
The title of Senior Curator indicates exceptional merit, and is among the highest distinctions this Museum can offer, remarked Mr. Lowry. This promotion recognizes Robert Storrs tremendous contributions, both as an exhibition organizer, a...
Queens Museum of Art: Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection
This landmark exhibition will present a wondrous display of 120 contemporary masterpieces, including: a powerful thirty-eight foot mural by Sam Francis; a soaring mobile by Alexander Calder; and a landmark video installation by Nam Jun...
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami: Albert Oehlen: I Know Whom You Showed Last Summer
The selection of paintings for this exhibition, notes Clearwater, "are among the most extreme examples of Oehlen's works. Although he has worked in a variety of mediums and styles, the abstract paintings are his primary interest as he believes th...
Erna Hecey Gallery: Market Forces Part 1 and 2
The exhibition features wrok by: Michael Ashkin, David Baskin, Betty Beaumont, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Jef Geys, Dan Graham, Louise Lawler, Alex MacLean, Diane Nerwen, Filip Noterdaeme, Sigmar Polke, Walter Robinson, Ron Rocheleau, Zoë ...
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg: Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age
With the exhibition Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg will present an exploration of the possibilities of pictorial invention open to painting in the age of photographic and digital media. Since th...
Sprengel Musuem: How you look at it: 20th-century Photography
The exhibition How you look at it. 20th-century Photography offers a chance to take stock. It starts by showing how photography has greatly increased in popularity in recent years, mainly obvious by its growing presence in museums w...
De Appel: The World is Fine, We Ourselves Unfortunately Somewhat Less: Ritsaert ten Cate
With works by: Tiong Ang/Roy Villevoye, Erzebet Baerveldt, Francis Bacon, Jan Banning, Johannes Bosboom, Joost van den Broek, Ritsaert ten Cate, Merlijn Doomernik, Marlene Dumas, Albert Eckhout, Ger van Elk, Lucio Fontana, Dominique Ghesquière, Gi...
Museum of Modern Art: Recent Photographs by Andreas Gursky
From Tokyo to New York, Paris to Brasília, Cairo, Shanghai, Los Angeles, Stockholm, Bonn, Hong Kong, and elsewhere, Gursky has sought out signs of our times - vast hotel lobbies, apartment buildings, warehouses, sporting cham...
Vegas Gallery: Pascal Rousson: The House of Pain
Museum of the Dispossessed incorporated paintings, which appropriated covers of the late 1960s D.I.Y. magazine Practical Householder. The paintings presented comical narratives that cast American modernist artists as self-obsessed bricoleurs with ...
Fortune Cookie Project: William Wegman : Man with the Dogs
William Wegman was born December 2, 1943 in Holyoke, Massachusetts. He received a BFA in painting from the Massachusetts College of Art in Boston in 1965 and an MFA from the University of Illinois Champagne-Urbana in 1967. From 1968 to 1970 he tau...
Riflemaker: Voodoo - Hoochie-Coochie and the Creative Spirit
Throughout the exhibition, the idea of Voodoo practise – initiation and possession particularly - is used as a metaphor for the spiritual heights considered essential to the creative process - a need to fire up the spirit, get your Mojo working, g...
Haus der Kunst: GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art
GROTESQUE! 130 Years of Witty Art presents works possessing those characteristics attributed to the concept of the grotesque in Meyers Konversationslexikon (an influential encyclopaedia) in 1895: "The result of a humour which - apparently without ...
Art 32 Basel: Art Fair Opens Today
The new, 700-page catalogue prepared in cooperation with the renowned Hatje Cantz publishing house appeared just a few days ago. This provides a richly illustrated preview of Art Basel and a comprehensive overview of all that the international a...

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