Sigmar Polke

Painter

Sigmar Polke was born in Olenica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland on February 13th, 1941 and is the Painter. At the age of 69, Sigmar Polke biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.

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Date of Birth
February 13, 1941
Nationality
Germany
Place of Birth
Olenica, Lower Silesian Voivodeship, Poland
Death Date
Jun 10, 2010 (age 69)
Zodiac Sign
Aquarius
Profession
Painter, Photographer, Sculptor
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Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
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Sigmar Polke Life

Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941-2010) was a German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a variety of styles, subject areas, and materials.

In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, where abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products.

He created paintings focusing on historical events and perceptions of them in the last 20 years of his life.

Life

Polke, the seventh child in a family of eight children, was born in Oels, Lower Silesia. He and his family immigrated to Thuringia in 1945, shortly after the expulsion of Germans following World War II. His family fled from East Berlin's Communist regime in 1953, first to West Berlin and then to West Germany Rhineland.

Since arriving in West Germany, near Krefeld near Krefeld, Polke began to spend time in galleries and museums, worked as an apprentice in a stained glass factory in Düsseldorf between 1959 and 1960, before he entered the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf (Arts Academy) at the age of 20. He attended the Düsseldorf Arts Academy from 1961 to 1967, was heavily influenced by his mentor Joseph Beuys. He began his artistic activity in Germany and elsewhere during a period of significant socioeconomic, cultural, and artistic transitions. Düsseldorf, in particular, was a burgeoning, commercial city and a pivotal center of cultural activity during the 1960s. Polke lived at the Gaspelhof, an artist's commune, in the early 1970s.

He was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Hamburg, from 1977 to 1991. Georg Herold, among other things, was among his pupils. He moved to Cologne in 1978, where he continued to live and work until his death in June 2010 after a long battle with cancer.

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Sigmar Polke Awards

Awards

  • 1964: "Neodada Pop Decollage Kapitalistischer Realismus", Galerie René Block, Berlin; Awarded the Young Germans award in Baden-Baden with Klaus Geldmacher and Dieter Krieg
  • 1975: Awarded the prize for painting at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo
  • 1986: Awarded a "Golden Lion" at the XLII Biennale di Venezia (shared with Frank Auerbach)
  • 1988: Awarded the 1988 Baden-Württemberg International Prize for Painting
  • 1994: Awarded the "Erasmus Prize" (Amsterdam)
  • 1995: Carnegie Prize at the Carnegie International, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
  • 1998: International Center of Photography, Infinity Award for Art; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
  • 1999: Wolf Prize (which he refused to accept)
  • 2000: Awarded the "Goslarer Kaiserring", Goslar, Germany
  • 2002: "Praemium Imperiale" awarded by the Japan Art Association, Tokyo
  • 2007: Awarded the "Rubens Prize" (Siegen, Germany)
  • 2008: Foreign Honorary Member in the Field of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2009: Honorary Member in the American Academy of Arts and Letters
  • 2010: Awarded the "Roswitha Haftmann Prize", Zurich