Bloomberg News –  Sigmar
Polke, one of Germany’s best-known
artists, died last night from cancer at the age of 69, his dealer Erhard
Klein
said in a phone interview. Polke, a painter, graphic artist and
photographer,
was “one of the most important and most successful representatives of
German
contemporary art,” German Culture Minister Bernd Neumann said in a
statement.
“He was a critical, ironic and self-ironic observer of postwar history
and its
artistic commentators.”