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Sigmar Polke

1941 - 2010

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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 his perception of historical events. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Sigmar Polke is the 443rd most popular painter (up from 829th in 2019), the 1,225th most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,287th in 2019) and the 47th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Sigmar Polke ranks 443 out of 2,023. Before him are Hannah Höch, Orcagna, Heinz Linge, Max Klinger, Marie Laurencin, and Giovanni Domenico Tiepolo. After him are Hubert Robert, Piero Manzoni, Lucian Freud, Jean-Étienne Liotard, Mikhail Vrubel, and Giovanni Battista Moroni.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1941, Sigmar Polke ranks 102. Before him are Vladimir Voronin, Hisao Kami, Hagen Kleinert, Michael Stuart Brown, Anne Rice, and Josip Skoblar. After him are Eduardo Duhalde, Otis Redding, Robert Pine, Eric Burdon, Tarita Teriipaia, and Kenji Tochio. Among people deceased in 2010, Sigmar Polke ranks 47. Before him are Stjepan Bobek, Arthur Penn, Carlos Hugo, Duke of Parma, Blake Edwards, Princess Regina of Saxe-Meiningen, and Enzo Bearzot. After him are Maria Kaczyńska, George C. Williams, Bekim Fehmiu, John Forsythe, Teddy Scholten, and Juliet Anderson.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Sigmar Polke ranks 1,225 out of 7,253. Before him are Adolf Eugen Fick (1829), Max Klinger (1857), Hans Magnus Enzensberger (1929), Christian Wirth (1885), Ivan Rebroff (1931), and Emich Carl, 2nd Prince of Leiningen (1763). After him are Ludwig Guttmann (1899), Frederick II Eugene, Duke of Württemberg (1732), Leo von Klenze (1784), Robert Aumann (1930), Charles Louis, Hereditary Prince of Baden (1755), and Christiane F. (1962).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Sigmar Polke ranks 47. Before him are Michael Wolgemut (1434), Adam Elsheimer (1578), Godfrey Kneller (1646), Hannah Höch (1889), Heinz Linge (1913), and Max Klinger (1857). After him are Lucian Freud (1922), Heinrich Füger (1751), Wilhelm Busch (1832), Anselm Feuerbach (1829), Johann Heinrich Wilhelm Tischbein (1751), and Joachim von Sandrart (1606).

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