- Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Sigmar Polke co-founded the ironic label Capitalist Realism in 1963 with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg. Across painting, photography, film and print he used raster dots, cheap printed fabrics, chemical processes and incompatible styles to destabilize images drawn from advertising, politics and art history.
Painting; photography; printmaking; film
Gallery Representation
Artist Films
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Major Works
- 1965–66Girlfriends
- 1969Higher Beings Command: Paint the Upper Right Corner Black!
- 1967Potato House
- 1971Alice in Wonderland
- 1984Watchtower
- 1982Paganini
- 1994The Three Lies of Painting
- 1991Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters
- 1969Untitled (Kathreiner’s Morning Wood)
- 2006–10Lens Paintings
Interviews & Writing
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