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| 1941 |
Born
in Oels, Poland
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| 1961-1967 |
Staatliche Kunstakademie,
Düsseldorf |
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Solo Exhibitions
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| 1966 |
'Hommage à
Schmela',
Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie René Block, Berlin
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| 1967 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Neue Bilder',
Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich
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| 1968 |
Galerie René
Block, Berlin
Kölner Kunstmarkt, Cologne
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| 1969 |
Galerie René
Block, Berlin
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
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| 1970 |
Kabinett für
aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven
Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder und Zeichnungen', Galerie Toni Gerber,
Bern
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder', Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
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| 1971 |
Galerie Ernst,
Hanover
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf
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| 1972 |
Galerie Rochus
Kowallek, Frankfurt
Galerie im Goethe-Institut, Provisorium, Amsterdam
'Polke', Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
'Sigmar Polke: Zeichnungen', Galerie Graphikmeyer, Karlsruhe
'Sigmar Polke: Der Dürer-Häse und anderes: Arbeiten,
1964-1972', Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern
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| 1973 |
Galerie Konrad
Fischer, Düsseldorf
Galerie Loehr, Frankfurt
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder', Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
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| 1974 |
Galerie Loehr,
Frankfurt
Galerie Cornels, Baden-Baden
Galerie Springer, Berlin
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder', Galerie Michael Werner and Thomas Borgmann
in the Galerie Rudolf Zwirner
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder, Objekte, Zeichnungen, 1967-1970', Galerie
Michael Werner, Cologne
'Sigmar Polke: Hallo Shiva...Neue Bilder', Galerie Klein, Bonn
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| 1975 |
'Sigmar Polke
Achim Duchow: Mu Nieltnam Netorruprup',
Kunsthalle zu Kiel and Schleswig-Holsteinischer Kunstverein, Kiel
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie Klein, Bonn
'Sigmar Polke: Neue Bilder', Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
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| 1976 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Wir Kleinbürger: Zeitgenossinnen und Zeitgenossen',
Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder, Tücher, Objekte: Werkauswahl 1962-1971',
Kunsthalle, Tübingen (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', Seriaal bv, Amsterdam
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| 1978 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Fotos',
Galerie Gerhild Grolitsch, Munich
'Sigmar Polke', InK, Halle für internationale neue Kunst
(exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie Hetzler & Keller, Stuttgart
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| 1979 |
Galerie Bama,
Paris
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie Klein, Bonn
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| 1980 |
Galerie Klein,
Bonn
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne
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| 1981 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Sie fliegen wieder',
Galerie Toni Gerber
'Sigmar Polke', Kölner Kunstmarkt, Cologne
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| 1982 |
'Sigmar Polke',
Galerie Bama, Paris
'Sigmar Polke: Works 1972-1981', Holly Solomon Gallery, New
York
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| 1983 |
Oldenburg Kunstverein,
Oldenburg
'Sigmar Polke: Retrospective', Galerie Toni Gerber, Bern
'Sigmar Polke: Skizzenbuch aus der Jahre 1968-1969', Städtisches
Museum Abteilberg, Mönchengladbach (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (travelling
exhibition)
'Sigmar Polke: 100 Zeichnungen, 1963-1969', Galerie Michael
Werner, Cologne (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Paris Febr.-März 71: Serie 39 Fotounikate',
Galerie Thomas Borgmann, Cologne
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| 1984 |
'Sigmar Polke',
Galerie Klein, Bonn
'Sigmar Polke: Paintings', Marian Goodman Galerie, New York
'Sigmar Polke', Josef-Haubrich-Kunsthalle, Cologne (exhibition
catalogue)
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| 1985 |
'Sigmar Polke',
Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York
'Sigmar Polke', Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
'Sigmar Polke', Alfred Kren Gallery, New York
'Sigmar Polke', Galerie Bama, Paris
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| 1986 |
'Athanor: Il
padiglione',
XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venice (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Titel Gibt's nicht' Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf
'Sigmar Polke: Bilder und Aquarelle der 60er Jahre', Thomas
Borgmann, Cologne
'Sigmar Polke: Farbproben-Materialversuche-Probienbilder aus den
Jahren 1973-1986', Galerie Klein, Bonn
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| 1987 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Drawing from the 1960's',
David Nolan Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Arbeiten auf Papier', Galerie Ha. Jo. Müller,
Cologne
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| 1988 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Drawings 1963-1969',
Mary Boone/Michael Werner, New York
'Sigmar Polke: Zeichnungen, Aquarelle, Skizzenbücher 1962-1988',
Kunstmuseum, Bonn (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', Musée d'art moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Paris (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Peintures Récentes', Galerie Crousel-Robelin
Bama, Paris
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| 1989 |
'Sigmar Polke',
Mary Boone Gallery, New York (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Photographien, Paris 1971', Jablonka Galerie,
Cologne
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| 1990 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Peintures Récentes',
Galerie Crousel-Robelin Bama, Paris
'Sigmar Polke: Prints', Baron/Boisanté, New York
'Sigmar Polke: Fotografien', Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden
(exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
(travelling exhibition)
'Sigmar Polke', Michael Werner Gallery, New York (exhibition
catalogue)
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| 1991 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Prints 1967-1990',
David Nolan Gallery, New York
'Sigmar Polke', Maximilian Krips Galerie, Cologne
'Sigmar Polke: Sfumato: Un'opera di Sigmar Polke al Museo di Capodimonte',
Museo di Capodimonte, Naples (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1992 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Schleifenbilder',
Ostfildern bei Stuttgart, Cantz (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Neue Bilder 1992', Städtisches Museum Abteilberg,
Mönchengladbach (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1993 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Bilder',
Galerie Klein, Bonn
'Sigmar Polke: Neue Arbeiten in der Sammlung Grothe', Neues
Museum Weserburg, Bremen
'Sigmar Polke', Fundaciò Espai Poblenou, Barcelona
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| 1994 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Laterna magica and Eight Curlicue Pictures',
National Galleries of Scotland, Edinburgh (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Gouaches 1994', Art Chicago, Chicago
'Sigmar Polke', Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes
(exhibition catalogue)
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| 1995 |
'Sigmar Polke:
Join the Dots',
Tate Gallery Liverpool, Liverpool (exhibition catalogue)
'Sigmar Polke: Editions, 1966-1995', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
'Sigmar Polke: Illumination', Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
(exhibition catalogue) |
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Selected Group
Exhibitions
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| 1966 |
'Junge Generation:
Maler und Bildhauer in Deutschland',
Akademie der Künste, Berlin (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1967 |
'Neuer Realismus',
Haus am Waldsee, Berlin
'Hommage à Lidice: 20 Ausstellung der Galerie René
Block', Galerie René Block, Berlin (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1969 |
'Blockade '69:
Räume von Beuys, Palermo, Hödicke, Panamarenko, Lohaus,
Giese, Knoebel, Ruthenbeck, Polke',
Galerie René Block, Berlin
'Konzeption-Conception: Dokumentation einer heutigen Kunstrichtung/
Documentation of a To-Day's Art Tendency', Städtisches Museum,
Leverkusen (exhibition catalogue)
'Accrochage', Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne
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| 1970 |
'Zeitgenossen:
Das Gesicht unserer Gesellschaft im Spiegel der heutigen Kunst',
Städtische Kunsthalle, Recklinghausen (exhibition catalogue)
'New Multiple Art', Whitechapel Gallery, London (exhibition
catalogue)
'Zeichnungen: Baselitz, Beuys, Buthe, Darboven, Erber, Palermo,
Polke, Richter, Rot', Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich,
Leverkusen (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1971 |
'Düsseldorf:
Kunst der Künstler',
Kulturamt der Stadt Düsseldorf (exhibition catalogue)
'Multiples: The First Decade', Philadelphia Museum of Art,
Philadelphia (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1972 |
'Amsterdam-Paris-Düsseldorf',
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1973 |
'Between 7:
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf: Some 260 Miles from Here',
Gallery House, London (exhibition catalogue)
'Grafiken von Palermo, Polke, Richter', Galerie Klein, Bonn
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| 1975 |
'Day by Day...They
Take Some Brain Away (with Georg Baselitz and Blinky Palermo)',
XIII Bienal de Sao Paulo (exhibition catalogue)
'Fünf Jahre Galerie Klein', Galerie Klein, Bonn
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| 1977 |
'Documenta
6',
Kassel (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1979 |
'Zeich setzen
durch Zeichenen',
Kunstverein, Hamburg (exhibition catalogue)
'With a Certain Smile?/Avec un certain sourire?/Mit einem gewissen
Lächeln?/Con un certo sorriso?', InK, Halle für internationale
neue
Kunst, Zurich (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1980 |
'Documenta
7',
Kassel (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1981 |
'A New Spirit
in Painting',
Royal Academy of Arts, London (exhibition catalogue)
'Art Allemagne aujourd'hui: Différents aspects de l'art
actuel en République Fédérale d'Allemagne',
Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (exhibition
catalogue)
'Les genevois collectionnent: Aspects de l'art d'aujourd'hui, 1970-1980',
Musée Rath, Cabinet des estampes, and Musée d'art et
d'histoire, Geneva (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1982 |
'Zeitgeist:
Internationale Kunstausstellung',
Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin (exhibition catalogue)
'Crossroads Parnass: International Avant-Garde at Galerie Parnass,
Wuppertal, 1949-1965', Goethe-Institut, London
'German Drawings of the 60s', Yale University Art Gallery,
New Haven (exhibition catalogue)
'Avanguardia Transvanguardia', Mura Aureliane de Porta Metronia
a Porta Latina (exhibition catalogue)
'Kunstmuseum Düsseldorf, 20 Jahrhunderts: Gemälde, Skulpturen,
Objekte', Städtische Kunsthalle and Kunstverein für
die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
'Choix pour aujourd'hui: Regard sur 4 ans d'acquisitions d'art
contemporain', Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges
Pompidou, Paris (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1983 |
'New Art at
the Tate Gallery 1983',
Tate Gallery, London
'Kunst mit Photographie: Die Sammlung
D. Rolf H. Krauss', Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen, Preussischer
Kulturbesitz, Berlin
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| 1984 |
'Upheavals:
Manifestos, Manifestations: Conceptions in the Arts at the Beginning
of the Sixties: Berlin, Düsseldorf, Munich/Aufbrüche: Manifeste,
Manifestationen: Positionen in der bildenen Kunst zu Beginn der 60er
Jahre in Berlin, Düsseldorf, und München',
Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf (exhibition catalogue)
'An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture',
The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exhibition catalogue)
'Contemporary Perspectives 1984', Bucknell University, Lewisburg,
Pennsylvania
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| 1985 |
'Nouvelle Biennale
de Paris',
Paris (exhibition catalogue)
'The European Iceberg: Creativity in Germany and Italy Today',
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (exhibition catalogue)
'Deutsche Kunst seit 1960 aus der Sammlung Prinz Franz von Bayern',
Staatsgalerie moderner Kunst, Munich
'German Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1905-1985',
Royal Academy of Arts, London
'1985 Carnegie International', Museum of Art, Carnegie Insitute,
Pittsburgh (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1986 |
'Falls the
Shadow: Recent British and European Art: 1986 Hayward Annual',
Hayward Gallery, London (exhibition catalogue)
'Wild Visionary Spectral: New German Art', Art Gallery of South
Australia, Adelaide
'Abstraits', Le coin du Miroir, Le Consortium, Dijon (exhibition
catalogue)
'The Sixth Bieannale of Sydney: Origins, Originality, and Beyond',
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
'Tableaux Abstraits', Villa Arson, Centre national d'art contemporain,
Nice (exhibition catalogue)
'Europa/Amerika: Die Geschichte einer künstlerischen Faszination
seit 1940', Museum Ludwig, Cologne (exhibition catalogue)
'Implosion: Ett postmodernt perspectiv/ A Postmodern Perspective',
Moderna Museet, Stockholm (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1987 |
'L'époque,
la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspects de l'art aujourd'hui, 1977-1987',
Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
(exhibition catalogue)
'Warhol, Beuys, Polke', Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
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| 1988 |
'Mythos Europa:
Europa und der Stier im zeitalter der industriellen Zivilisation',
Kunsthalle, Bremen (exhibition catalogue)
'Joseph Beuys, Sigmar Polke, Cy Twombly', Hirschl & Adler
Modern New York
'Made in Cologne: Künstler aus Köln der DuMont Kunsthalle',
DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne
'Arbeit in Geschichte: Geschichte in Arbeit', Kunsthaus, Hamburg
(exhibition catalogue)
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| 1989 |
'Refigured
Painting: The German Image, 1960-88',
Organized by Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (exhibition catalogue)
'Yves Klein, Brice Marden, Sigmar Polke', Hirschl & Adler
Modern, New York
'Magiciens de la terre', Musée national d'art moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris and La Grande Halle, La Villette (exhibition
catalogue)
'Peinture Cinéma Peinture', Centre de la Vieille Charité
Marseille (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1990 |
'Affinities
and Institutions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary
Art',
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1991 |
'Pop Art: An
International Perspective',
Royal Academy of Arts, London (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1992 |
'I Love Art
II: In Quest of the Concept of Contemporary Art',
The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo
'Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawings', The Museum
of Modern Art, New York (exhibition catalogue)
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| 1993 |
'Photography
in Contemporary German Art: 1960 to the Present',
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
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| 1995 |
'La Collection
François et Ninon Robelin',
Musée d'art moderne, Saint Etienne (exhibition catalogue)
'Abstrakt: Imi Knoebel, Martin Noël, Jürgen Partenheimer,
Sigmar Polke, Richard Tuttle', Galerie Klein, Mutscheid |
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Selected Bibliography
Selected books
and articles by Polke
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| 1972 |
'Bundestagswahl:
Bizarre Fotos aufgenoomen in Düsseldorf und Köln',
Edition Staeck, Heidelberg
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| 1973 |
'Franz Liszt
kommt gern zu mir zum Fernsehen',
Book published on the occasion of exhibition at Westfälischer
Kunstverein, Münster
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| 1975 |
'Day by Day...They
Take Some Brain Away',
Offset catalogue for the Bienal de Sao Paolo
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| 1983 |
'Get to Know
Our Smallest Contributors',
Bound in the exhibition catalogue for Sigmar Polke, Museum Boymans-van
Beuningen, Rotterdam
'Goya', Bound in the exhibition catalogue for Sigmar Polke,
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
'Heroes in the Air', Printed for Artforum 22
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| 1986 |
'Athanor: The
Pavilion',
Book published as the catalogue for Polke's exhibition at the German
Pavilion, XLII Biennale, Venice
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| 1988 |
'Untitled',
Printed as cover for exhibition catalogue for Sigmar Polke, Musée
d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
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| 1994 |
'Untitled',
Volume of Parkett, no. 40/41, p. 134-135 |
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Books and Articles
about Polke
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| 1976 |
Wirth, Günther,
'Sigmar Polke: Werkauswahl 1962-1971 Kunsthalle Tübingen...'
Das Kunstwerk (Stuttgart) 29, no. 3, pp. 32 and 68, May
|
| 1980 |
Pohlen, Annelie,
'Irony, Rejection and Concealed Dreams: Some Aspects of Painting
in Germany', Flash Art (Milan), nos. 94-95, January-February;
reprinted in Flash Art. Two Decades of History: XXI Years,
Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press, 1990, pp. 67-70
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| 1982 |
Buchloh, Benjamin
H. D., 'Parody and Appropriation in Francis Picabia, Pop, and Sigmar
Polke', Artforum (New York)20, no.7, pp. 28-34, March
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| 1984 |
Curiger, Bice,
'Sigmar Polke'. Collaboration Sigmar Polke, special issue of
Parkett (Zurich), no.2, pp.36-41, July
Grasskamp, Walter, 'Kleinbürgerlicher Realismus: Sigmar Polkes
Frühwerk', Wolkenkratzer Art Journal (Frankfurt) 1,
no.2, pp.40-42, April/May
Pohlen, Annelie, 'The Beautiful and the Ugly Pictures. Some Aspects
of German Art: The Found and the Constructed Pictures', Art
& Text (Prahran, Australia), nos. 12-13, pp. 60, 61, 63-66
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| 1985 |
Gintz, Claude,
'Polke's Slow Dissolve', Art in America (New York) 73,
no. 12, pp. 102-109; quoted in part in a French translation in L'époque,
la mode, la morale, la passion: Aspects de l'art aujourd'hui, 1977-1987,
exh. cat., Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, pp. 262-65
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| 1986 |
Marcadé,
Bernard, 'La Droguerie de Polke', Artstudio, no.2, pp.
118- 131
Collings, Matthew, 'Modern Art: Julian Schnabel', Artscribe
International, no. 59, pp. 26-31
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| 1987 |
Kuspit, Donald
B., 'Sigmar Polke: Mary Boone Gallery', Artforum (New
York) 25, no.6, pp. 111-12
Liebmann, Lisa, 'Sigmar Polke's Art'. In Warhol/ Beuys/
Polke, exh. cat., Milwaukee Art Museum, pp. 97-101
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| 1988 |
Gambrell, Jamey,
'Sigmar Polke', In Carnegie International, exh. cat.,
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, p.114
Govan, Michael, 'IV. On Polke', In Refigured Painting: The
German Image 1960-88, exh. cat., Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, pp. 43-45
Graw, Isabelle, 'Sigmar Polke: Polke's Dizzying Drawings Document
History', Flash Art (Milan), no.142, p.111
Kuspit, Donald B., 'At the Tomb of the Unknown Picture', Artscribe
International (London), no.68, pp.38-45,
Tosatto, Guy, 'Sigmar Polke: Le Malin génie de la peinture',
Beaux Arts Magazine (Levallois, France), no.62, pp. 66-71,
November
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| 1990 |
Caldwell, John,
'Sigmar Polke', In Sigmar Polke, exh. cat., San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, pp. 9-16
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| 1991 |
Baker, Kenneth,
'Addition + Abundance: Sigmar Polke', Artforum International
(New York) 29, no. 8, pp. 82-88, April
Hickey, Dave, 'Polke in America: The Non-Returnable Flounder and
the Dime-Store Sublime', Parkett (Zurich), no.30, pp.86-91
|
| 1992 |
Curiger, Bice,
'The Man with the Magnifying Glass', In Sigmar Polke,
exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, pp. 56-62
Garrels, Gary, 'Mrs. Autumn and Her Two Daughters', In Sigmar
Polke, exh. cat., Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, pp. 66-71
Power, Kevin, 'Sigmar Polke', Frieze (London), pp. 24-33
|
| 1995 |
McEvilley, Thomas,
'Sigmar Polke: Betrayed Lover', In Sigmar Polke: Join the
Dots, exh. cat., Tate Gallery, Liverpool, pp. 81-89
|
| 1996 |
Germer, Stefan,
'Intersecting Visions, Shifting Perspectives: An Overview of German-American
Artistic Relations', In The Froelich Foundation: German and
American Art from Beuys and Warhol, exh.
cat., Tate Gallery, London, pp. 9-34
Graulich, Gerhard, 'The Roguish Joys of Dots', In Sigmar
Polke: Transit, exh. cat., Staatliches Museum Schwerin, pp. 17-24
Power, Kevin, 'Polke, Poison, and Potatoes', Flash Art,
no. 190, pp. 89-93
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| 1997 |
Erfle, Anne, 'Phenomenology
of Repression: Sigmar Polke's Images of Germany', In German
Art from Beckmann to Richter, exh. cat., Martin- Gropius-Bau,
Berlin, pp. 237-43
Haxthausen, Charles W., 'The Work of Art in the Age of its Chemical
Transmutability: Rethinking Painting and Photography after Polke',
In Sigmar Polke: Die Drei Lügen der Malerei/ Sigmar Polke:
The Three Lies of Painting, exh. cat., Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle
der Bundesrepublik Deutschland Bonn, pp. 185-202
Holler, Wolfgang, 'Polkes Witz', Vernissage, no. 8,
pp. 41-46
|
| 1998 |
Liebmann, Lisa,
'Sigmar Polke', Artforum, no. 5, pp. 89-90, January |
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