Farbprobe - Gold Leaf
Sigmar Polke (Oels 1941 - Köln 2010)
Lot-No. 406
Mixed media a. gold leaf/canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Unframed. - Provenance: The consignor, who was acquainted with the artist, received the work as a gift in his studio shortly before his death. Her father carried out delivery trips for the artist for many years. As an encore: four books personally dedicated by the artist to the named consignor. - German painter and graphic artist. P. is one of the formative figures of West German post-war art. After training as a glass painter, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Otto Götz and G. Hoehme from 1961-67. Under the slogan of 'Capitalist Realism', P. founded an artists' group in 1963 with other artists, including Gerhard Richter. In 1977-91 P. was a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, after which he settled in Cologne. He was a particularly versatile and versatile artist. Thus, on the one hand, there are works as highly reflective commentaries on art history and the mechanisms of the art market, on the other hand, the major commission to design the church windows in Zurich's Grossmünster. Mus.: Paris (Centre Pompidou), Los Angeles (Getty Mus.), Munich (Pinakothek der Moderne), Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof), Hamburg (Kunsthalle) a. others.
Sigmar Polke: Farbprobe - Gold Leaf
Sigmar Polke (Oels 1941 - Köln 2010)
Farbprobe - Gold Leaf
Lot-No. 406
Mixed media a. gold leaf/canvas. 50 x 40 cm. Unframed. - Provenance: The consignor, who was acquainted with the artist, received the work as a gift in his studio shortly before his death. Her father carried out delivery trips for the artist for many years. As an encore: four books personally dedicated by the artist to the named consignor. - German painter and graphic artist. P. is one of the formative figures of West German post-war art. After training as a glass painter, he studied at the Düsseldorf Academy under Karl Otto Götz and G. Hoehme from 1961-67. Under the slogan of 'Capitalist Realism', P. founded an artists' group in 1963 with other artists, including Gerhard Richter. In 1977-91 P. was a professor at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg, after which he settled in Cologne. He was a particularly versatile and versatile artist. Thus, on the one hand, there are works as highly reflective commentaries on art history and the mechanisms of the art market, on the other hand, the major commission to design the church windows in Zurich's Grossmünster. Mus.: Paris (Centre Pompidou), Los Angeles (Getty Mus.), Munich (Pinakothek der Moderne), Berlin (Hamburger Bahnhof), Hamburg (Kunsthalle) a. others.
