Clown
Bernard Schultze (Schneidemühl 1915 - Köln 2005)
Lot-No. 369
Starting Bid: 6.000 €
2000. Oil/canvas. 80 x 120 cm. Lower right signed and dated Bernard Schultze 2000, on the reverse titled as well as signed and dated again. - German artist of the Informel. S. studied in Berlin and at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1934-39. After serving in the war and working in Flensburg and Frankfurt, S. moved to Cologne in 1968. He was a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin until 1992. In 1952 he was a co-founder of the Quadriga artists' group with Karl Otto Götz and others. S. is one of the most important artists of German Informel; he expanded the often powerful, gestural and expansive pictorial language of Informel with a lyrical and small-scale execution, whose forms favor associations of change and incompleteness. S. exhibited several times at the Documenta and his paintings adorn the representative rooms of the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn, the former residence of the Federal President. Mus.: Köln (Mus. Ludwig), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Vollmer.
Bernard Schultze: Clown
Bernard Schultze (Schneidemühl 1915 - Köln 2005)
Clown
Lot-No. 369
Starting Bid: 6.000 €
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| Date: | 2000 |
| Technique: | Oil/canvas |
| Dimensions: | 80 x 120 cm |
| Mark/Notation: | Lower right signed and dated Bernard Schultze 2000, on the reverse titled as well as signed and dated again |
Vita:
German artist of the Informel. S. studied in Berlin and at the Düsseldorf Academy from 1934-39. After serving in the war and working in Flensburg and Frankfurt, S. moved to Cologne in 1968. He was a member of the Akademie der Künste Berlin until 1992. In 1952 he was a co-founder of the Quadriga artists' group with Karl Otto Götz and others. S. is one of the most important artists of German Informel; he expanded the often powerful, gestural and expansive pictorial language of Informel with a lyrical and small-scale execution, whose forms favor associations of change and incompleteness. S. exhibited several times at the Documenta and his paintings adorn the representative rooms of the Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn, the former residence of the Federal President. Mus.: Köln (Mus. Ludwig), Essen (Folkwang-Mus.) a. others. Lit.: Vollmer.
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