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Sigmar Polke (1941)

Professions: Painter; Photographer

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    SIGMAR POLKE

    SIGMAR POLKE

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    Sigmar Polke (b. 1941)

    Sigmar Polke (b. 1941)

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    Sigmar Polke (b. 1941)

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    Sigmar Polke , b. 1941 Spirale oil and lacquer on fabric in two panels

    Sigmar Polke , b. 1941 Spirale oil and lacquer on fabric in two panels

Sigmar Polke Biography

(b Oels, Lower Silesia [now Olesnicka, Germany], 13 Feb 1941). German painter. He moved with his family in 1953 from what was then East Germany to Willich, near Mönchengladbach, formerly West Germany. After completing an apprenticeship as a painter of stained glass, he began studying in 1961 under Gerhard Hoehme and Karl-Otto Götz at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf. Together with Konrad Fischer-Lueg and Gerhard Richter (who was also a pupil of Götz), in 1963 Polke launched Capitalist Realism in response to Pop art, exhibiting the first works in this genre in Düsseldorf. In paintings such as Biscuits (enamel on canvas, 800*750 mm, 1964; Munich, Lenbachhaus) Polke took as his motifs such ordinary food items as chocolate, sausages or biscuits, isolating them and apparently depriving them of their tactility in order to elevate them to the status of aesthetic signs. At around the same time he began producing a series of sketched faces and stylized mannequin-like figures influenced by the work of Francis Picabia, as in Lovers II (varnish and oil on canvas, 1.90*1.42 m, 1965; London, Doris and Charles Saatchi priv. col., see Zurich exh. cat., p. 61).

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