Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke
Sigmar Polke (right) with his friend Dieter Frowein-Lyasso
Born	(1941-02-13)13 February 1941 Oels, Germany, (now Oleśnica, Poland)
Died	10 June 2010(2010-06-10) (aged 69) Cologne, Germany
Education	Kunstakademie Düsseldorf
Known for	Painting, Photography
Movement	Capitalist realism
Awards	Rubens Prize of the City of Siegen (2007)

Sigmar Polke (13 February 1941 – 10 June 2010) 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 historical events and perceptions of them.