Polke's City Painting II (1968) sold for $7
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Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he produced paintings focused on his percepti…
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culture · German painter (1941–2010) · photographer · painter · sculptor · designer · installation artist · graphic artist · printmaker · draftsperson · visual artist · also Sigmar Polke, Polke
Born 13 February 1941 · Died 10 June 2010 · Q376062
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2010· 1 entry
Died 2010-06-10.
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2007· 3 entries
Awarded Rubenspreis (2007).
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Axial Age (2005–2007), a monumental cycle of paintings, was shown for the first time at the 2007 Venice Biennale, with the wish explicitly expressed by the artist that the work should remain on display in Venice
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The "Museum Moderner Kunst" (MUMOK) held an exhibition of Polke's work entitled "Sigmar Polke: Retrospektive"
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2005· 1 entry
And the Getty Center in Los Angeles in 2007
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2002· 2 entries
Awarded Praemium Imperiale (2002).
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Polke developed a new technique of 'machine painting'
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1999· 1 entry
Polke created a series of five large, three-dimensional lightboxes using lenticular technology
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1995· 1 entry
In collaboration with his later wife Augustina von Nagel, a suite of 35 prints entitled "Aachener Strasse" combine street photography with images from Polke's paintings, developed using techniques of multiple exposures a
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1994· 2 entries
Awarded Erasmus Prize (1994).
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Produced The Three Lies of Painting, where a landscape containing a mountain and a tree is intercut with abstract devices before succumbing to the intrusive presence of a large, vertical strip of printed fabric
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Lovis Corinth Prize (1993).
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Lichtwark Prize (1984).
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1980· 1 entry
Began exploring Australia and Southeast Asia, working with materials like arsenic, meteor dust, smoke, uranium rays, lavender, cinnabar and a purple pigment from the mucus excreted by snails
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1978· 1 entry
Where he continued to live and work until his death in June 2010, after a long battle with cancer
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1975· 1 entry
Sold at Christie's London in February 2006 for £568,000 ($988,000)
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1968· 1 entry
The year after he left the art academy, Polke published these images as a portfolio of 14 photographs of small sculptures he had made from odds and ends—buttons, balloons, a glove
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1966· 1 entry
And in 1970 he had his first solo exhibition at Galerie Michael Werner
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1963· 1 entry
Polke founded the painting movement "Kapitalistischer Realismus"
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1953· 1 entry
Traveling first to West Berlin and then to West Germany Rhineland
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1945· 1 entry
During the expulsion of Germans after World War II
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1941· 1 entry
Born 1941-02-13.
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