Picture "Dr Pabscht het z'Schpiez s'Schpäckbschteck z'schpät bschteut" (1980/1991)
Picture "Dr Pabscht het z'Schpiez s'Schpäckbschteck z'schpät bschteut" (1980/1991)
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limited, 120 copies in total | numbered | signed | titled | C-print and acrylic varnish on vinyl | unframed | size 50 x 40 cm
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Picture "Dr Pabscht het z'Schpiez s'Schpäckbschteck z'schpät bschteut" (1980/1991)
In this edition, Polke drew upon the Swiss-German tongue twister "Dr Pabscht het z'Schpiez s'Schpäckbschteck z'schpät bschteut", which translates to "The Pope ordered the bacon cutlery too late in Spiez". A work from the edition of 120 copies is part of the renowned collection at the Museum Brandhorst in Munich.
C-print and acrylic lacquer on vinyl, 1980/1991. Edition: 100 copies marked with Arabic numerals and 20 with Roman numerals, mounted on stretcher frame, numbered, signed and titled on the back. Edition for Parkett, no. 30, 1991, Parkett-Verlag, Zurich. Catalogue raisonné Becker/von der Osten no. 91. Size stretched on stretcher frame 50 x 40 cm.
About Sigmar Polke
1941-2010
Sigmar Polke, born in Oels, Silesia, is considered one of the most important painters of the present day. International exhibitions and retrospectives in San Francisco, New York, Bonn and Berlin as well as important awards such as the Golden Lion of the 42nd Venice Biennale praise his work.
Together with Gerhard Richter, he proclaimed "Capitalist Realism" during their time at the Düsseldorf Art Academy in 1963. They developed a specifically German version of American Pop Art, with which they took aimed the mustiness of the Adenauer years.
Unlike his American colleges, he didn’t use Brillo boxes. Instead, Polke adapted motifs from the German magazine "Bäckerblume" (eng.: baker’s flower), and instead of working with screen-printing techniques, he painted his grid pictures dot by dot by hand. From the beginning, style and motif quotations played an important role for him. He used media images, illustrations and comics.
With humour and irony, Sigmar Polke commented in his works on the bourgeois and political appearances of the affluent society. Former German Minister of State and Representative of the Federal Government for Culture Bernd Neumann paid tribute to Sigmar Polke: "He was a critical, ironic and self-deprecating observer of post-war history and its artistic commentator."
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