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Sigmar Polke<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Sigmar Polke was born on 13 February 1941 in Ole\u015bnica (Silesia). During the Second World War his family fled to Thuringia, and they settled in D\u00fcsseldorf in 1953. Here, Sigmar Polke did an apprenticeship at a stained-glass maker, and subsequently, from 1961 to 1967, studied at the Kunstakademie D\u00fcsseldorf with Karl Otto G\u00f6tz and Gerhard Hoehme. While he was still studying, he and his fellow students Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter organised a first public exhibition under the label Capitalist Realism<\/em>. His first group and solo exhibitions at galleries followed in D\u00fcsseldorf, Cologne, Berlin, Hannover and other places, and later he was granted a professorship at the Hochschule f\u00fcr bildende K\u00fcnste (HFBK) in Hamburg (1970\/71). In the 1970s, Polke entered into lively exchange with artists and other creative people at his home, a former farm named Gaspelshof in Willich, and in Switzerland, travelled abroad (Afghanistan\/Pakistan, New York), and had his first international exhibitions (Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo, 1975). A first retrospective of his work was shown in 1976 in T\u00fcbingen, D\u00fcsseldorf and Eindhoven. In 1978 Sigmar Polke moved to Cologne, where he lived and worked until his death on 10 June 2010.

Sigmar Polke\u2019s extensive oeuvre encompasses painting, works on paper, photography, film, objects, and graphic works. His unconventional and experimental use of different media and materials and his rich visual worlds made him one of the most influential post-war German artists, and his work still inspires young artists today.
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EXHIBITIONS (Selection)<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
  • 1963
    • Demonstrative Ausstellung, Kaiserstra\u00dfe 31A, D\u00fcsseldorf, with Manfred Kuttner, Konrad Lueg and Gerhard Richter <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
    • 1966
      • polke\/richter. richter\/polke<\/em>, Galerie h, Hanover <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
      • 1966
        • Hommage an Schmela<\/em>, Galerie Schmela, D\u00fcsseldorf <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
        • 1972
          • Documenta 5. Befragung der Realit\u00e4t. Bildwelten heute<\/em>, Museum Friedericianum, Neue Galerie, Kassel <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
          • 1973
            • Original + F\u00e4lschung<\/em>, Westf\u00e4lischer Kunstverein, M\u00fcnster, with Achim Duchow (subsequently at St\u00e4dtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
            • 1974
              • Hallo Shiva\u2026 Neue Bilder<\/em>, Galerie Klein, Bonn <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
              • 1975
                • XIII Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/em>, S\u00e3o Paulo <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                • 1976
                  • Sigmar Polke. Bilder, T\u00fccher, Objekte, selection of works, 1962\u20131971<\/em>, Kunsthalle T\u00fcbingen (subsequently at Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf and Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                  • 1982
                    • Documenta 7<\/em>, Kassel <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                    • 1983
                      • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (subsequently at St\u00e4dtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                      • 1984
                        • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich (subsequently at Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, K\u00f6ln) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                        • 1986
                          • Athanor. Il padiglione. XLII Biennale di Venezia<\/em>, Venice <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                          • 1988
                            • Sigmar Polke. Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenb\u00fccher, 1962\u20131988<\/em>, St\u00e4dtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                            • 1988
                              • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, ARC, Mus\u00e9e d\u2019Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                              • 1990
                                • Sigmar Polke. Fotografien<\/em>, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                • 1990\u201392
                                  • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (subsequently at Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Brooklyn Museum, New York) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                  • 1992
                                    • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                    • 1994\u201395
                                      • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Carr\u00e9 d\u2018Art, Mus\u00e9e d\u2018Art Contemporain, N\u00eemes (subsequently IVAM Centre del Carme, Valencia) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                      • 1997\u201398
                                        • Sigmar Polke. Die drei L\u00fcgen der Malerei<\/em>, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland (subsequently Nationalgalerie at Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                        • 1999
                                          • Sigmar Polke. Works on Paper 1963\u20131974<\/em>, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (subsequently Hamburger Kunsthalle) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                          • 2005
                                            • Sigmar Polke. Werke & Tage<\/em>, Kunsthaus Z\u00fcrich <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                            • 2009\u201310
                                              • Sigmar Polke. Wir Kleinb\u00fcrger! Zeitgenossen und Zeitgenossinnen. Die 1970er Jahre<\/em>, Hamburger Kunsthalle <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                              • 2013\u201314
                                                • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Mus\u00e9e de Grenoble <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                • 2014\u201315
                                                  • Alibis: Sigmar Polke, 1963\u20132010<\/em>, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (subsequently Tate Modern, London, and Museum Ludwig, Cologne) <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                  • 2016
                                                    • Sigmar Polke<\/em>, Palazzo Grassi, Venice <\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                    • 2018-19
                                                      • Sigmar Polke<\/em> and the 1970s \u2013 Networks, Experiments, Identities<\/em>, Museum f\u00fcr Gegenwartskunst, Siegen<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                      • 2021-22
                                                        • Productive Image Interference: Sigmar Polke and Artistic Perspectives Today<\/em>, Kunsthalle D\u00fcsseldorf <\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n

                                                          AWARDS (Selection)<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n
                                                          • 1966
                                                            • Deutscher Kunstpreis der Jugend (Young German Art Award), Baden-Baden<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                            • 1975
                                                              • Prize for painting of the city of S\u00e3o Paulo, XIII Bienal de S\u00e3o Paulo<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                              • 1986
                                                                • Leone d'oro. Grand prize for painting, XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venice<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                • 1994
                                                                  • Erasmus Prize of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation, Amsterdam<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                  • 2000
                                                                    • Kaiserring, art prize of the city of Goslar<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                    • 2002
                                                                      • Praemium Imperiale, Japan Art Association, Tokyo<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                      • 2007
                                                                        • Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                        • 2010
                                                                          • Roswitha Haftmann Prize, Zurich<\/li><\/ul><\/li>
                                                                          • 2017
                                                                            • Prix Visarte D\u2018Honneur, Zurich<\/li><\/ul><\/li><\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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