Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10
June 2010) was a German painter and photographer.
Polke experimented with a wide range of
styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated
on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced
abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between
paint and other products. In the last 20 years of his life, he
produced paintings focused on historical events and perceptions of
them.Wikipedia
In 1963, Polke founded the painting
movement "Kapitalistischer Realismus"[4] ("Capitalist
realism") with Gerhard Richter[5] and Konrad Fischer (alias
Konrad Lueg as artist). It is an anti-style of art, appropriating the
pictorial shorthand of advertising. This title also referred to the
realist style of art known as "Socialist Realism", then the
official art doctrine of the Soviet Union and its satellites (from
one which he had fled with his family), but it also commented upon
the consumer-driven art "doctrine" of western capitalism.
He also participated in "Demonstrative Ausstellung", a
store-front exhibition in Düsseldorf with Manfred Kuttner, Lueg, and
Richter. Essentially a self-taught photographer, Polke spent the next
three years painting, experimenting with filmmaking and performance
art.Wikipedia
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