Sigmar Polke

(Picture: Right) German painter and photographer. Polke experimented with a wide range of styles, subject matters and materials. In the 1970s, he concentrated on photography, returning to paint in the 1980s, when he produced abstract works created by chance through chemical reactions between paint and other products. Born: 13 February 1941 in Oels, Germany, (now Oleśnica, Poland) Died: 10 June 2010 in Cologne, Germany