Sigmar Polke art links 

Original works by Sigmar Polke available for purchase at art galleries worldwide
 
 

Art Institute of Chicago   NEW!

Dallas Museum of Art, Texas   NEW!
(There is a "Download" link for zooming in on some works, but confusingly this may take a while to become active)

Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain   NEW!

Guggenheim Museum, New York City
Kathereiner's Morning Wood

J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
Untitled, Düsseldorf, 1968

Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City   NEW!

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston   NEW!

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper, 1963-1974

Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Includes biographical information about the artist

National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.   NEW!
Most but not all artists in the NGA database have works online

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Tate Gallery, London, UK

Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Norway

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

De Pont Foundation for Contemporary Art, Netherlands
Click "works in collection"

Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany

Harvard University Art Museums, Massachusetts
Harvard have works in their collections, but unfortunately you have to type in the search yourself

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.   NEW!

Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Ohne Titel, 1981

Los Angeles County Museum of Art   NEW!

Ludwig Museum of Contemporary Art, Budapest

Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
untitled (vase), 1966

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Ashes to Ashes

Museumslandschaft Hessen, Germany (in German)  

Philadelphia Museum of Art

Saint Louis Art Museum, Missouri
Why Can't I Stop Smoking?, 1964

Schleswig-Holstein Museums, Germany
2 works online

Serralves Foundation Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
Click on "P" and page forward for "Polke"

Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (in German)  

Walker Art Center, Minnesota

 

Art Signature Dictionary   NEW!

Christie's Past Sale Archive
(database goes as far back as 1991; images go about as far back as 1999)

Lempertz Auction Gallery, Cologne, Germany -- Highlights from Past Sales
2 paintings online as you scroll down the page

Sotheby's Sold Lot Archive
(database goes as far back as 1998; images where permitted by copyright go about as far back as 2001)

 

Sigmar Polke at The Artchive

World Visit Guide (formerly Insecula)

Bildindex der Kunst und Architektur (in German)  
(a welcome screen is displayed for a couple of seconds before the search results appear)

Ciudad de la Pintura (in Spanish)  

El Poder de la Palabra (The Power of the Word) (in Spanish)  

USC Annenberg School for Communication

Additional Image Search Tools:
(SafeSearch set to "strict"; go to Advanced Search (Flickr/Google) or Preferences (Bing) to change)

	Flickr: "Sigmar Polke"
	Google Images: "Sigmar Polke"
	Bing Images: "Sigmar Polke"

 
 

The BBC
sigmar polke 'history of everything'

UBS Financial Services Art Collection

 

Encyclopedia Britannica complete article on Sigmar Polke  
Note: The full version of the article is available only if you follow this link. If you bookmark the article and return later, or if you navigate directly to the Britannica website, you will see a 100-word preview only. Troubleshooting

Union List of Artist Names (Getty Museum)  
Reference sheet with basic information about the artist and pointers to other references.

Wikipedia, the "Open Content" Encyclopedia

Deutsche Bank Artmag
Sigmar Polke in the Tate Modern

Frieze Magazine
"Polke"

Frieze Magazine
"Cosmic Rays"

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 81): Sigmar Polke

Frieze Magazine
Review (from issue 33): Sigmar Polke

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Sigmar Polke - sorry I missed you", 2010 article by Adrian Searle

The Guardian Newspaper, UK
"Moving targets", 2003 review by Adrian Searle

The New Yorker
"Many-colored Glass", 2008 article by Peter Schjeldahl

The New Yorker
"Lens Crafter", brief 2009 review by Peter Schjeldahl

"Look Inside" and "Search Inside" Books at Amazon Look Inside Books: Selections from the books listed below are scanned in, in high res. Text is clearly readable and art reproductions vary from so-so to excellent. Don't miss the fact that you can usually zoom in via the "View" drop-down menu, along the top row of Amazon's Online Reader.              Search Inside Books: Same as "Look Inside", except that the entire book is scanned in, and the text is fully searchable. This is an unbelievable resource, for research and especially for previewing a book when making the decision to buy. Note: Some "Search Inside" features are limited to people signed in to an account which has previously made a purchase at Amazon.   look inside Sigmar Polke: Works on Paper 1963-1974 look inside Sigmar Polke: The Three Lies of Painting