Serge Poliakoff

1900-1969

The fact that Serge Poliakoff received a comprehensive musical education in his youth and was devoted to music throughout his whole life is also evident in his painting. Poliakoff did not simply paint – he was a composer of colours and forms.

He was born in Russia but ended up in Paris in 1923. Initially inclined towards representational painting, abstraction increasingly took up space in his work from 1935 onwards. Poliakoff developed into a painter who was able to contrast incredibly fine nuances of colour and create pictures full of lightness and deep poetry based solely on the arrangement of the colour fields. In 1937, he began to exhibit his work. From 1950 onwards, he was one of the established abstract artists and most important representatives of the École de Paris and exhibited at the documenta, and was given his own dedicated room for his paintings at the Venice Biennale, among others.

The fascination for his paintings is everlasting. Poliakoff’s works are among the most sought-after pieces internationally. To this day, his paintings and lithographs remain as relevant and popular as ever. According to a 2012 statement by the German newspaper Handelsblatt no exhibition would be complete without a work by the abstract artist, who was already celebrated during his lifetime.

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