Sigmar Polke

✶February 13, 1941

†June 10, 2010

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About their life

Sigmar Polke 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 his perception of historical events.

German artist (1941–2010)

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Biography from the article Sigmar Polke on the English Wikipedia, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.