Sigmar Polke: Irony, Image, and Ideology

Sigmar Polke

1941–2010 | German | Photography; Oils; Mixed Media

Polke’s family migrated from East to West Germany in 1953. His work in the 1960s and 1970s can often be described as a chaotic appropriation of images from consumer society, painted onto unorthodox surfaces. His paintings are sometimes claimed to be attacking cliché-ridden banalities of current society, and operate at an ironical level of consciousness.

Property from an Important European Collection

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Sigmar Polke

Ohne Titel (Porträtist)

Propellerfrau (1969)

KEY WORKS: Pagans, 1982 (London: Saatchi Collection); Saturn, 1990 (San Francisco: Fine Arts Museums)