| 1941 | born in Oels |
| 1945 | Flight of the family to Thuringia |
| 1953 | moved to Düsseldorf |
| 1959-61 | Glass painter apprenticeship in Düsseldorf |
| 1961-67 | Studies at the State Academy of Art in Düsseldorf with Karl Otto Götz and Gerhard Hoehme |
| 1963 | Co-founder of "Capitalist Realism |
| 1970-71 | Visiting professor at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg |
| 1971 | Move to Cologne |
| 1975 | Awarded the Prize for Painting of the City of São Paulo at the XIII Bienal de São Paulo |
| 1974 | Trip to Afghanistan and Pakistan |
| 1977-91 | Professorship at the Academy of Fine Arts in Hamburg |
| 1978 | Moved to Cologne |
| 1980-81 | Travels to Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, Australia, Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand |
| 1984 | Kurt Schwitters Prize of the Lower Saxony Savings Bank Foundation in Hanover |
| 1986 | Grand Prize for Painting at the XLII. Biennale di Venezia |
| 1988 | International Prize for Fine Arts of the State of Baden-Württemberg |
| 1993 | Lovis Corinth Prize of the Esslingen Artists' Guild |
| 2000 | receives the Kaiserring of Gosla |
| 2007 | Rubens Prize of the city of Siegen |
| 2008 | honorary member of the American Academy of Arts & Sciences in Cambridge |
| 2010 | died in Cologne |
ARTISTS
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Art after 1945
Sigmar Polke
Available works
The first step, 1995
Schloss Dätzingen
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Tuesday – Friday 11 – 19
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