| Sigmar Polke Works on paper 1963 - 1974 16 July - 17 Oktober 1999
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| The recent comprehensive retrospective in the Bundeskunsthalle
Bonn and the Nationalgalerie Berlin firmly established Sigmar Polke’s reputation as one of the leading artists of the present day.
Organized in collaboration with the Museum of Modern Art in New York, this exhibition in the Hamburg Kunsthalle will be the only European showing of an extensive survey of Polke’s drawings, from the small format works of the 1960s to the picture-sized works of the 1970s, plus a number of previously unknown sketchbooks. The exhibition will be accompagnied by an approx.
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Hamburger Kunsthalle Glockengießerwall
20095 Hamburg
Telephone 040 - 428 131 200 Facsimile 040 - 428 54 34 09 e-mail: info@hamburger-kunsthalle.de |
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Alongside his paintings, Polke has been creating a graphic œuvre of
considerable dimensions and particular significance since the early 1960s. These drawings
have an individual character, accompanying the paintings with their tremendous wealth of
pictorial and creative ideas.