Sigmar PolkeGerman, 1941–2010Watchtower
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The Museum of Modern Art
New York, United States
It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.
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- The museum's own collection data
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- Accession number
- 230.1991
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Meanwhile, in the life of Sigmar Polke
The whole life1977–1991
Professor at the Hamburg Academy
From 1977 to 1991 Polke was a professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg; his students included Georg Herold.
1980s
Back to painting: chemistry and chance
Returning to painting in the 1980s, Polke mixed pigments with solvents, varnishes, toxins and resins to provoke spontaneous chemical reactions; he soaked fabric in resin to make it transparent and left the composition to the colours themselves, tilting the canvas.
1982
First solo show in New York
In 1982 the Holly Solomon Gallery in SoHo held Polke's first solo exhibition in New York, of paintings made at least a decade earlier.
19 June 1982 – 28 September 1982
Exhibition: documenta 7
1984 · Award
Lichtwark Prize
1986
The Golden Lion at Venice for “The Alchemist's Cauldron”
In the German pavilion at the 42nd Venice Biennale Polke painted an abstract composition on the wall in a special mixture whose colours changed with the light, weather, humidity and the number of visitors: a full room turned the wall blue, gathering clouds turned it pink. For “The Alchemist's Cauldron” the jury gave him the Golden Lion for painting, shared with Frank Auerbach.
