Bidspirit auction | Bernard Schultze: ”Hommage à Jean

Bernard Schultze: ”Hommage à Jean Paul” - SCHULTZE, BERNARD 1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne Title: ”Hommage à Jean Paul”. Date: 1977. Technique: Oil on canvas. Measurement: 230 x 185cm. Notation: Dated and signed lower right: 77 Bernard Schultze. Additionally signed, dated and titled verso upper left: Bernard Schultze 77 ”hommage à Jean Paul”. Frame/Pedestal: Framed. Provenance: - Galerie der Spiegel, Cologne - Bayer AG, Leverkusen (1978 directly from the artist) Exhibitions: - Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1979 - Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf 1980/81 - Akademie der Künste, Berlin 1981 - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt a.M. 1981 - Saarland Museum, New Gallery, Saarbrücken 1981 - Bayer Erholungshaus, Leverkusen 2008 - MMK Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg 2012/13 - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 2013 Literature: - Diederich, Stephan/Herrmann, Barbara (eds.): Bernard Schultze - Verzeichnis der Werke, vol. II, 1939 to 1989, Cologne 2015, cat. rais. no. 77/3, fig. - Exhib. cat. Bernard Schultze/Ursula (Schultze-Bluhm), Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1979, cat. no. 39 - Exhib. cat. Bernard Schultze 'Im Labyrinth', works from 1940-1980, Städtische Kunsthalle/Akademie der Künste/Frankfurter Kunstverein/Saarland-Museum, Berlin 1980, p. 190, cat. no. 97 - Althöfer, Heinz (ed.): Informel, Der Anfang nach dem Ende, Forschungsprojekt Informelle Kunst, Schriftenreihe des Museum am Ostwall, vol. 1, Dortmund 1999, p. 180 - Exhib. cat. Bernard Schultze, Gegenwelten, MMK Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Cologne 2012, p. 69, fig. - Exhib. cat. From Beckmann to Warhol, Art of the 20th and 21st Centuries - The Bayer Collection, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Cologne 2013, p. 158, fig. VAN HAM Art Estate has represented the partial artistic estate of Bernard Schultze of the Folkwang-Museumsverein e.V., Essen, since 2018: www.bernard-schultze.org . - Deep, monumental painting by the famous informal painter - Interplay of vegetal forms that create a fantastic landscape - Title pays homage to the Canadian abstract painter Jean-Paul Riopelle, who influenced Schultze early on and paved the way for abstraction Estimated shipping costs for this lot: Arrangement after the auction. This lot will be sold under standard taxation (Condition of Sale §V5.1) Explanations to the Catalogue Bernard Schultze Germany Informel Post-War Art Post War 1970s Framed Abstract Painting Oil