Sigmar Polke, Gerhard Richter
Sies + Höke
Poststraße 2+3 40213 Düsseldorf Germany
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Art Basel Miami Beach 2021
Miami Beach Convention Center 1901 Convention Center Drive Miami Beach, FL 33139+41 58 206 27 06 e-mail:
2 > 4 December, 2021
Booth G10
Sigmar Polke and Gerhard Richter met in 1962 as students at the Düsseldorf Art Academy. Richter was born in Dresden in 1932 and had already completed his first degree there. He was nine years older than his fellow student Polke. Inspired by new artistic developments in New York, London and Paris, they acquired a figurative visual language that was based on the imagery of popular mass media and borrowed its motifs and themes from glossy magazines and daily newspapers. Together with two other Academy students, Konrad Lueg and Manfred Kuttner, they founded the German version of international Pop Art under the slogan Capitalist Realism, which was to be their Federal Republican answer to the conformist East German Socialist Realism. At that time, Polke and Richter in particular cultivated a close artistic relationship and personal friendship. Richter later emphasized that he had been closer with Sigmar Polke at that time "than with anyone before".
. Text excerpt from Dietmar Elger: Drawings from the Sixties, 2021
. Text excerpt from Dietmar Elger: Drawings from the Sixties, 2021
 | Sigmar Polke | |
| | Gerhard Richter | |
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 11am to 8pm, First Choice and Preview VIP cardholders
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Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 4pm to 8pm
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 11am to 8pm, First Choice VIP cardholders
Tuesday, November 30, 2021, 4pm to 8pm, Preview VIP cardholders
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 11am to 8pm, First Choice and Preview VIP cardholders
Vernissage (by invitation only)
Wednesday, December 1, 2021, 4pm to 8pm
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Thursday, December 2, 2021, 11am to 7pm
Friday, December 3, 2021, 11am to 7pm
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 11am to 6pm
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Thursday, December 2, 2021, 11am to 7pm
Friday, December 3, 2021, 11am to 7pm
Saturday, December 4, 2021, 11am to 6pm
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For an exclusive experience of Art Basel in Miami Beach 2021, purchase the Premium+ Card. See details about this four-day pass here.
Day Ticket (valid one day): USD 65
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