Mr.
Sigmar Polke
(
–
)
1941
2010
Cologne, Germany
;
New York, NY
Artist (painter, photographer)
Area
Humanities and Arts
Specialty
Visual Arts
Elected
2008
International Honorary Member
Painter and Photographer. With his co-founders of Capitalist Realism, began an enterprise of translating pop culture into visual images. mixing art, science, culture, and politics. With an exquisite sense of irony became one of the most honored and respected contemporary German artists. The wealth of his created images evokes Da Vinci and his notebooks. A contemporary and a medievalist, he remains the trickster, the outlaw, dancing between the real, the abstract, and the alchemical.
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