Sigmar Polke (born 1941 Oels, Silesia [now Oleśnica, Poland], died 2010 Cologne), was one of the most important artists in recent decades. The exhibition displays works spanning from 1963 to 2010; his extensive oeuvre has not been the subject of a retrospective since the exhibition mounted in 1997 at the Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, and the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. The retrospective opening at the Museum Ludwig on March 14, 2015, after having been shown in New York and London, is thus the first in over fifteen years and also the first since the artist’s death. It is also for the first time that all the media with which the artist engaged intensively throughout his career are brought together in one exhibition, emphasizing the fact that Polke’s work always resisted classification in art-historical terms. The roughly 250 items on display, many of them never shown before in Germany, include not only paintings and drawings, with which he achieved his reputation, but also prints, sketchbooks, objects, sculptures, photographs, films, slide installations, and photocopy pieces. This inclusive approach reveals how Polke combined different media and blurred the distinctions between them. Some of his paint­ings, for ex­am­ple, in­cor­po­rate pho­to­graph­ic ma­te­rials and others are based on raster dots de­rived from prin­t­­ed im­ages; paintings are based on raster dots de­rived from print­ed im­ages; photographs become unique works through interventions in the development process; and film exerts a pervasive influence on all his work. The title of the exhibition alludes to the new kind of artist that Polke represented: the artist who consistently defies expectations. Weight 2-5 Kg Condition : As good as New… Will be shipped by registered Mail ; and T&T .