Sigmar Polke

German | 1941 - 2010

Sigmar Polke was a German Postwar & Contemporary artist who was born in 1941. His work is currently being shown at multiple venues like Kunstmuseum Bern. Numerous key galleries and museums such as Museo Nacional del Prado have featured Sigmar Polke's work in the past.Sigmar Polke's work has been offered at auction multiple times, with realized prices ranging from 4 USD to 27,130,000 USD, depending on the size and medium of the artwork. Since 1998 the record price for this artist at auction is 27,130,000 USD for DSCHUNGEL (JUNGLE), sold at Sotheby's New York in 2015. In the past 12 months, his sculptures have averaged 95,115 USD, while his works on paper have sold for an average of 49,443 USD.Sigmar Polke has been featured in articles for , and . The most recent article is written for ArtDaily in April 2025. The artist died in 2010.

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Der erste Schnitt ,1995

By Sigmar Polke

Ketterer Kunst Munich

Hallucie ,1998

By Sigmar Polke

Ketterer Kunst Munich

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Stadtbild II (City Painting II) - Sigmar Polke

Stadtbild II (City Painting II) ,1968

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F眉r den Dritten Stand bleiben nur noch die Kr眉mel (For the third rank, there are only crumbs) - Sigmar Polke

Für den Dritten Stand bleiben nur noch die Krümel (For the third rank, there are only crumbs) ,1997

By Sigmar Polke

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H盲userfront [Front of the Housing Block] - Sigmar Polke

Häuserfront [Front of the Housing Block]

By Sigmar Polke

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Untitled (Deutsche Dokumente - Sigmar Polke

Untitled (Deutsche Dokumente ,1983

By Sigmar Polke

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Untitled ,1969

By Sigmar Polke

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Vollmond im Widder ,2004

By Sigmar Polke

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Untitled (Griffelkunst 1989 - Sigmar Polke

Untitled (Griffelkunst 1989 ,1989

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Sigmar Polke ,1998

By Sigmar Polke

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Obelisk (Hieroglyphen ,1973

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Current Exhibitions

The Big 4-0, Vol. 2: New Views of the Collection

Haggerty Museum of Art

Milwaukee | Wisconsin | USA

Jan 17,2025 - May 24,2025

Look, the Eyes

MGKSiegen

Siegen | Germany

Dec 06,2024 - Jun 15,2025

Typologien

Fondazione Prada, Milan

Milan | Italy

Apr 03,2025 - Jul 14,2025

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Articles

Frieze Magazine 23/04/2025

At Fondazione Prada, Milan, a group show studies the variations and chance connections that form our worldview.

ArtDaily 19/04/2025

The Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles is hosting a major exhibition devoted to one of the great artists of our time, Sigmar Polke (1941鈥�2010), featuring paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures and films.

ArtDaily 10/04/2025

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao announced that six artworks by international contemporary artists will be incorporated into the Museum鈥檚 collection, thanks to a gift from the D.Daskalopoulos Collection.

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Coverage

鈥� ..Polke is best known for his work in painting, a medium he navigated with a broadly experimental attitude toward content and materials... 鈥�
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Michael Werner, London

鈥� ..Methodology based on radical doubt became the foundation from which Polke quickly became known for his experimental photography... 鈥�
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r/e projects

鈥� ..Like many artists of his generation, Polke adopted a critical stance in his work, forced as he was to reconcile the horrors of his country鈥檚 recent past with growing prosperity and consumerism amidst the... 鈥�
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Michael Werner, New York

鈥� ..ntary material and source images, serve not only to illustrate the diversity of his work across a range of media but also to present acompletely new鈥� as a result of being long ignored 鈥� image of Polke... 鈥�
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Hamburger Kunsthalle

鈥� ..While the images contain the evidence of his subjects, the developing process provided Polke the ability to create hallucinatory narratives, resembling an episode from a dream... 鈥�
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Koenig & Clinton