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Sigmar
Polke
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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
'Kunt 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
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| 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
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| 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
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| 1995 |
McEvilley, Thomas, 'Sigmar Polke: Betrayed Lover',
In Sigmar Polke: Join the Dots, exh. cat., Tate
Gallery, Liverpool, pp. 81-89
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| 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
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| 1998 |
Liebmann, Lisa, 'Sigmar Polke', Artforum,
no. 5, pp. 89-90, January |
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