Sigmar Polke
Wochenendhaus

1967

EB25

3-coloured screen print on cardboard
59,5 x 84 cm

Edition of 80 in cassette (1/80 - 80/80) + various h.c. copies, signed and numbered

out of stock

part of portfolio Grafik des kapitalistischen Realismus more editions by Sigmar Polke

Screen print by Sigmar Polke. A modern detached house in b/w in the style of an advertising brochure, printed in a coarse grid. In the foreground, a colorized flower entwines itself through the picture.

Sigmar Polke’s contribution to the portfolio Grafik des Kapitalistischen Realismus (EB25) is based on an advertisement from a newspaper showing the drawing of a weekend house with a terrace and garden. As in his paintings, in Wochenendhaus (Weekend house) Polke adopts the small grid dots that make up the original and translates them into the screen print. Originally owed to the technical reproduction process of newspaper printing, the grid – greatly enlarged – is used as a formal means of emphasizing the mass-media nature of the image. Together with the colorful flower that runs through the picture in the foreground and stands out against the black and white background, Wochenendhaus becomes a symbol of the trivial promises of the economic miracle.
The graphic was printed in an edition of 80 copies and an unverifiable number of h.c. copies by Birkle + Thomer + Co, Berlin and is signed and numbered. Advertising posters on paper were produced from the same screen for the graphic portfolio originally published by Stolpe Verlag. On the posters, information about the portfolio such as title, participating artists and publisher are listed below the image.
Text: Katrin Seemann