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One of the most important and influential figures on the artistic scene today, Sigmar Polke began his professional career as a painter in 1963. A vast number of drawings from the first decade of his activity, most of which has never been seen in the Unit www.moma.org/exhibitions/1999/polke/index.html
Born in Oels, Silesia in 1941, Sigmar Polke moved from Thuringia to Dusseldorf in 1953, where he embarked on an apprenticeship as a glass-painter in 1959. He spent the years 1961 - 1967 at the Dusseldorf art academy under Gerhard Hoehme and Karl Otto Got www.namenderkunst.com/e/sigmar-polke/