Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke
painter and photographer
(Ole?nica, Poland, 2/13/1941 - 6/10/2010, Cologne, Germany)
Note: German painter became internationally influential after his first solo exhibition in New York at the Holly Solomon Gallery, 1982, though the work shown was created in the preceding decade. He is known for his multi-layered works that drew from found images, photography, and abstraction, work that itself was built on the innovations of American Pop Art. His reputation grew steadily from the 1980s, and he was considered at his death one of the foremost painters of his generation.
2 objects
1995 (printed 1999)
offset lithograph on Hahnemuhle-Butten paper
Bequest of David P. Becker, Class of 1970
2011.69.311
1974
four-color offset photolithograph on paper, from photos taken by Sigmar Polke
Museum Purchase, James Phinney Baxter Fund, in memory of Professor Henry Johnson
2014.15.1