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ID: 500115233 Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500115233			Record Type: Person

Polke, Sigmar (German painter, 1941-2010)

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.

Names:
	Polke, Sigmar (preferred,V,index,LC,English-P,NA,U)
	Polke, Sigmar (Dutch-P,NA)
	Sigmar Polke (V,display)
	פולקה, סיגמר (U,Hebrew-P,NA,U)

Nationalities:
	German (preferred)
	West German
	Polish

Roles:
	artist (preferred)
	painter
	photographer
	printmaker
	sculptor
	installation artist
	graphic artist
	draftsman
	cinematographer

Gender: male


Birth and Death Places:
	Born: Oleśnica (Dolnośla̜skie, Poland) (inhabited place) Died: Cologne (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)

Events:

	active:		Willich (North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany) (inhabited place)
	active:		Germany (Europe) (nation)

Related People or Corporate Bodies:

associated with ....	Szeemann, Harald
............................	(Swiss curator, 1933-2005) [500196090]

collaborated with ....	Richter, Gerhard
................................	(German painter, born 1932) [500003003]

colleague of ....	Kuttner, Manfred
......................	(German painter, 1937-2007) [500126039]

friend of ....	Palermo, Blinky
................	(German painter and printmaker, 1943-1977) [500047415]

influenced ....	Kippenberger, Martin
....................	(German painter and sculptor, 1953-1997) [500069290]

student of ....	Beuys, Joseph
..................	(German sculptor, performance artist, printmaker, 1921-1986) [500024607]

student of ....	Goetz, Karl Otto beginning in 1961 at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf
..................	(German painter, graphic artist, and poet, 1914-2017) [500017831]

student of ....	Hoehme, Gerhard beginning in 1961 at the Kunstakademie in Dusseldorf
..................	(German painter and printmaker, 1920-1989) [500019617]

teacher of ....	Duchow, Achim
..................	(German photographer, 1948-1993) [500125964]

teacher of ....	Gaida, Klaus Georg
..................	(German painter, born 1950) [500374073]

teacher of ....	Herold, Georg
..................	(German painter, sculptor, and installation artist, born 1947) [500110599]

teacher of ....	Oehlen, Albert
..................	(German painter, born 1954) [500047413]

worked with ....	Lueg, Konrad
....................	(German painter and art dealer, 1939-1996) [500097917]

List/Hierarchical Position:

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Persons, Artists

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Polke, Sigmar (I)

Biographies:

(German painter, 1941-2010) ..... [VP Preferred]
(German, contemporary) ..... [JPGM]
(West German photographer, painter, printmaker, b.1941) ..... [BHA]
(German artist, 20th cent.) ..... [WCP]
(German artist, 20th century) ..... [WL-Courtauld]
(German painter) ..... [Grove Art]
(artist) ..... [GRL]
(artist, active 20th century) ..... [GRISC]
(German artist, 1941-2010) ..... [MoMA]
(German photographer, 1941-2010) ..... [IMJ]
(German painter, born 1941) ..... [Belvedere]
(artist) ..... [Belvedere]
(German painter, 1941-2010) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:

פולקה, סיגמר ........	[IMJ]
........................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database

Polke, Sigmar ........	[Belvedere Preferred, BHA Preferred, GRISC Preferred, GRL Preferred, Grove Art Preferred, IMJ Preferred, MoMA Preferred, RKD Preferred, VP Preferred, WCP Preferred, WL-Courtauld Preferred]
............................	Archiv des Belvedere database: Künstlerdokumentation (n.d.) 3261
............................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
............................	Database for the Witt Checklist of Painters c. 1200-1976 (1978-)
............................	Grove Art artist database (1989-)
............................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
............................	Israel Museum Jerusalem database
............................	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)
............................	Library of Congress Authorities data (n.d.) n 84095244
............................	RKD Artists database (2000-) 64103
............................	Witt Library, Authority files

Sigmar Polke ........	[GRISC, GRL, MoMA, VP, WL-Courtauld]
..........................	Artists, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) New York (2000-)
..........................	Getty Vocabulary Program rules
..........................	Harald Szeemann papers, Finding Aid, GRI Special Collections (2011-)
..........................	J. Paul Getty Museum, collections online (2000-)


Note:
English	..........	[VP]
	..........	Smith, Sigmar Polke, New York Times (2010)

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