22 June 2007 – 7 October 2007

Sigmar Polke

Sigmar Polke, born in 1941 in Oels/Lower Silesia, moved to West Germany at the age of 12. He formulated a completely independent pictorial language which, in playing with contradictions and cliché images, leads to humorous commentaries and puzzle pictures revealing a humanist and culturally critical ethos. Polke became known as a co-founder of Capitalist Realism, an art movement that, like Pop Art, referred on the one hand to everyday life and, on the other, wished to be understood as an ironic variation of Socialist Realism.

Address

MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien
MuseumsQuartier Museumsplatz 1
1070 Wien
phone +43 1 525 00
http://www.mumok.at

Opening Hours

Daily 10 a.m. - 6 p.m., Thursday till 9 p.m..

Description of the Museum

The collection consists in classical modernism (Kandinsky, Klee, Magritte...)

New building opened 2001; architects: Ortner & Ortner

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