12 June 2010

Sigmar Polke R.I.P.


Bloomberg News - Sigmar Polke, one of Germany's best-known artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard Klein said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and photographer, was "one of the most important and most successful representatives of German contemporary art," German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said in a statement. "He was a critical, ironic and self-ironic observer of postwar history and its artistic commentators."

4 comments:

jc said...

...one of Richter's peers...

c-life said...

And so it goes.

And so it must.

micro said...

Richter better do a memorial piece.

jc said...

we better do one too.