Sigmar Polke
Today is the occasion to bear in mind Sigmar Polke (13/2/1941-10/6/2010), he is an artist whose work defies easy definitions. He is one of the most significant painters of the post-war generation, yet his career has by no means been confined to painting. Polke’s artistic diversity, and his resistance to …
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer celebrated for his restless experimentation, razor-sharp wit, and subversive satire. A co-founder of Capitalist …
![Sigmar Polke, Untitled (Sicherheitsverwahrung) [Preventive Detention], 1979, Dispersion, spray paint, safety pins, razor blades, brooch, sweets on decorative fabric, 130 x 110 cm; Collection Musée d‘Art Toulon, France, ©The Estate of Sigmar Polke/ VG Bild-Kunst, Bonn 2024](https://www.dreamideamachine.com/web/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/00-25-332x332.jpg)
Born in the Silesian town of Oels, and growing up in both East and West Germany, Sigmar Polke was one of the …
Georg Baselitz, Gerhard Richter, Sigmar Polke and Anselm Kiefer – four world-famous artists whose renown is unique in the history of the …
Sigmar Polke was one of the most voraciously experimental artists of the 20th Century. He worked with a unusually broad range of …
Sigmar Polke’s images are products of his world and surroundings. They reveal many traces of the changing society of the postwar years. …
Sigmar Polke worked with a variety of media: paintings, photographs, drawings, prints, objects, installations, and films. Characterized by a relentlessly experimental and …
For the 1986 Venice Biennale Sigmar Polke conceived an extraordinary installation for the German Pavilion generically entitled “Athanor”. Alchemy and politics were …
Sigmar Polke found the motif for his first published print “Girlfriends I” in a newspaper ad that had itself been printed with …
Sigmar Polke was one of the most insatiably experimental artists of the 20th century, who continuity experimented with various art mediums. This …
Sigmar Polke was one of the most insatiably experimental artists of the 20th century, who continuity experimented with various art mediums. …
