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Munich, 24 June 2010 Wuth the death of Sigmar Polke (born 1941) on 10 June 2010 the art world lost one of the world's most respected contemporary German artists. In memory of Polke, living in Cologne since 1978 and co-founder of "Capitalist Realism" the Brandhorst Museum decorates a new hall with his works.
Apart from the popular audience since the opening of the paintings "The Three Lies of Painting" (1994) and "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité" (1988), now almost all the works from the collection Polke Brandhorst be seen. This includes minor, such as Goethe's Works "(1963), two" color tests "(1978 and 1982) as well as a large-scale, enigmatic painting Untitled from 1983. The holdings also include the monumental because of its size in the basement work shown "apparition" (1994), which was first shown at the Biennale in Venice. Among the 22 works by the artist in the collection Brandhorst include many delicate works on paper, but in daylight on the ground floor space can not be shown.
"We honor this art space to the memory of the great Sigmar Polke," said Armin Zweite, director of the Brandhorst Collection. "We also show the audience now the spectrum of the artist in front of the library. The creativity Polke, his irony and the range of his artistic expression can understand here the basis of works from four decades. "
The work of Sigmar Polke is marked by a humorous and critical engagement with society, culture and history. Against the background of German-German developments he founded in the 1960s, together with Gerhard Richter and Konrad Lueg the "Capitalist Realism, exposed as an ironic counterpoint to his" socialist "pendant, the consumption and leisure patterns and other West German peculiarities. Clichés, conventions and values Polke subtly parodied, as in a distorting mirror which he holds before the viewer. Influenced by Pop Art and characterized by their mass media subjects and techniques developed Sigmar Polke an independent style pluralism, which was not modified by the constant experimentation with unconventional materials and image makers.
1972, 1977 and 1982, Sigmar Polke was represented on the "documenta" in Kassel. In 1986 he was the representative of Germany to "Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale." Other prestigious awards followed.
In the Power of Painting 1: Warhol, Polke, Richter
