Sigmar Polke*, (1941-2010)
Untitled (overpainting/Mönchengladbach 1992). Unique. 1993. Color offset painted over with ink on cardboard. The sheet was published in an edition of 80 signed copies; each sheet in this edition was given a unique character through an individual revision by the artist using water-based ink in different colors and with different motifs. 69.8 x 99.8 cm. Signed and dated lower right: Sigmar Polke 93. Published by the Mönchengladbach Museum Association as an annual gift.
This unique work was created as part of a limited series as an annual edition of the Mönchengladbach Museum Association published in 1993. Sigmar Polke is considered one of the most important German post-war artists. After training as a glass painter, he studied at the Düsseldorf Art Academy with Karl Otto Götz and Gerhard Hoehme. Together with his colleagues Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg and Manfred Kuttner, Polke founded what they called Capitalist Realism, a new art style in which they were concerned with rejecting the established art world. In 1999, Polke exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, and after his death, the museum dedicated a retrospective to him in 2014. Polke's extensive oeuvre includes works in a wide variety of techniques. These are characterized by an unconventional and experimental use of different media and materials. In this work, Polke uses an offset lithograph of his own work as a basis and creates a unique piece by individually painting over it with characteristic grid structures, as we also know them from some of his other works. None of the works created in this limited edition are alike; they all differ significantly in both the choice of colors and the motifs, making them unique pieces. Jürgen Becker and Claus von der Osten (eds.), Sigmar Polke, Die Editionen 1963 - 2000 1963 - 2000.
Literature: Werkverzeichnis, Ostfildern, New York 2000, Wvz.-Nr. 98, Abb. S. 274-277.

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