Bernard Schultze Art
German, 1915-2005
Bernard Schultze (1915-2005) was a painter, a leading figure in German Informal Art. He was born in Schneidemühl (East Prussia) and was 6 years old when he moved to Berlin, where his father held judicial office. When he was 19, he enrolled at Berlin’s Academy of Art Education and at the Academy of Fine Arts in Düsseldorf. After graduating in 1939, he was sent to the front, in Russia and Africa, where he was to say until the end of the war. After spending two years in Flensburg as a refugee, he joined his father, who had been appointed senior judge at the Frankfurt court. In autumn 1949, he made the acquaintance of the artist Ursula Bluhm at the Franck Gallery, whom he married 6 years later. In 1951, Bernard Schultze, whose early works had been destroyed when Berlin was bombed in 1944, produced his first informal paintings and paid his first visit to Paris, where he later stayed at regular intervals.
He was one of Europe’s leading practitioners of gestural abstraction. In1952, he founded the Quadriga group of artists along with Karl Otto Götz (1914-2017), Otto Greis (1913-2001) and Heinz Kreutz (1923-2016), inaugurating “Informal Art” in Germany. In the early years of his career, he adopted André Breton’s point of view, according to which creative processes must be guided by the unconscious, which led him to develop a unique pictorial vocabulary in resonance with other artistic practices prevalent in the first half of the 20th century and an existential aesthetic of destruction reflected in tattered, distorted structures and colours evocative of wounds and decomposition, certainly connected with his own experience of war.
In 1972, he was elected to Berlin’s Academy of Fine Arts. For two years (1980-1981), a major retrospective of his work made the rounds in Germany (Düsseldorf, Berlin, Frankfurt and Saarbrucken). In the 1980s and beyond, the painter was awarded numerous prizes and held numerous exhibitions, including one devoted to his works on paper at the Albertina in Vienna (1984). The end of the decade also saw his first large-format oil paintings, which could reach sizes of up to 15 m2, in which he soon introduced (1991) “tabuskri”, intersections of painting and graphic structures. During the years that followed, the artist worked on developing large-format bronzes and etchings. In 1995, he moved to Rue du Cygne in Paris, which became his second home. Thenceforth, he divided his life between Paris and Cologne, where he died on 14 April 2005, a few weeks before his 90th birthday.
Bernard Schultze’s works feature in a great many collections across the world, including at the Ludwig Museum in Cologne, the Museum of Modern Art in Céret, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, the Tate Collection in London, the Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum in Rotterdam and the MoMA in New York.(Biography provided by OBA/ART)
to
1
1
1
2
1
1
1
1
Carnival - Etching by Bernard Schultze - 1964
By Bernard Schultze
Located in Roma, IT
Carnival is a beautiful etching, realized in 1964 by the German painter and engraver Bernard Schultze (1915–2005) a leading exponent of abstract painting and an enormously prolific artist.
Hand-signed on the lower right.
Good conditions.
The artwork represents a spirit of carnival through intrigued lines in which figures are combined, the strongness of strokes makes a unique feeling of the carnival scene, the chaotic carnival sounds visualized through aesthetic features, by the sharp imagination of the artist.
Bernard Schultze (1915–2005) was one of the largest German painters of the Abstraction in the middle of the 20th century. a painter who co-founded the Quadriga group of artists along with Karl Otto...
Category
1960s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
Hommage a Picasso, Etching by Bernard Schultze
By Bernard Schultze
Located in Long Island City, NY
Artist: Bernard Schultze, German (1915 - 2005)
Title: Hommage a Picasso
Year: 1973
Medium: Etching, signed and numbered in pencil
Edition: 75/90
Image Size: 21.5 x 17.5
Size: 30 x 21...
Category
1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
Related Items
Hesiod Theogony - The Divinity and Dove - Original Etching Hand Signed Num /50
By Georges Braque
Located in Paris, FR
Georges Braque (1882-1963)
Hesiod's theogony : the divinity and the dove
Original etching, 1932
Hand signed in pencil
Numbered /50 copies
On Hollande vellum size 49 x 38.5 cm (c. 19...
Category
1930s Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
Sketch II. Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Animal, Horse, Polish artist
By Pawel Zablocki
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative etching print by Polish arist living in Canada, Pawel Zablocki. Print depicts a horse on a monochromatic backroung. Artist's unique technique of printmaking c...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
Three sketches for new runs. Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Animals
By Pawel Zablocki
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative etching print by Polish arist living in Canada, Pawel Zablocki. Print depicts three scenes with equestrians. Artist's unique technique of printmaking creates ...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Paper, Etching
City Landscape - Original Etching by C. Meryon - 1866
By Charles Meryon
Located in Roma, IT
City Landscape is an Original Etching realized by Charles Meryon in 1866.
The artwork is in good condition included a cream colored cardboard passpartout (35.5x46 cm).
No signature...
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
No Reserve
H 8.78 in W 11.03 in D 0.08 in
David Shrigley, We Won The Race: Etching Contemporary Pop Art, Signed Print
By David Shrigley
Located in Hamburg, DE
David Shrigley (British, b. 1968)
We Won the Race, 2020
Medium: Etching on Somerset 250 g
Dimensions: 29 x 38 cm
Edition of 20: Hand-signed and numbered in pencil
Condition: Mint
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
Portrait No.1
By François Houtin
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and titled artist proof. A print from early in Houtin's career A fanciful bio-morphic portrait.
François Houtin was born in Craon en Mayenne, France in 1950. He has lived an...
Category
1970s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
Our Gang - Flashback 1950's
By Xavier Viramontes
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Signed and numbered from the edition of 30. Nostalgic look back at the artists' friends in Oakland during the 1960's.
In the 1970's, Chicano artist Xavier Viramontes worked with the...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching, Aquatint
The Human Body - De Humani Corporis Fabrica - by Andrea Vesalio - 1642
Located in Roma, IT
The Human Body is an original etching realized as plate no. 10 of Andrea Vesalio's "De Humani Corporis Fabrica".
The "De Humani Corporis Fabrica is commonly considered a major adva...
Category
1640s Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
H 13.39 in W 7.88 in D 0.04 in
Untitled - Etching on Japan Paper by G. F. Bigot - Tokyo 1886
By George Ferdinand Bigot
Located in Roma, IT
Untitled is a drypoint on Japon paper, etched on leather by Georges Ferdinand Bigot (Paris, 1860 - 1927). From Croquis Japonais, a print suite of 21 drypoints published at the author...
Category
1880s Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
H 11.82 in W 8.08 in D 0.04 in
Port de Pêche - Etching by Claude Piechaud - Second half of 1900
By Claude Piechaud
Located in Roma, IT
Port de Pêche is an original artwork realized by the French artist Claude Piechaud in the second half of the XX Century. Etching on paper.
Hand-signed in pencil on the lower right margin. Edition Hautecoeur, Paris.
Very good conditions. Limited edition.
Very beautiful and fresh artwork representing a harbour with some boats; in the center of the composition there are small boats with rolled ropes. On the background, there are the high sailings realized with contrasting and black strokes...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching
No Reserve
H 17.92 in W 24.81 in D 0.04 in
From Rues et Visages de Paris - 1920s - Drypoint/Etching - Modern
By Chas Laborde
Located in Roma, IT
Illustrated Plate, from Rues et Visages de Paris is a hand-colored etching and drypoint by Chas Laborde. This original print is hand-colored with tempera and watercolor.
In excellent...
Category
1920s Modern Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Drypoint, Etching, Tempera, Watercolor
H 12.6 in W 15.75 in D 0.04 in
Resting. Contemporary Figurative Etching Print, Female Nude, Polish artist
By Pawel Zablocki
Located in Warsaw, PL
Contemporary figurative etching print by Polish arist living in Canada, Pawel Zablocki. Print depicts a woman laying on her side with head resting on her arm. Artwork is monochromati...
Category
2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Etching, Paper
Previously Available Items
German Art Informel LOOKING IN THE LIGHTS, Assemblage, Collage Drawing
By Bernard Schultze
Located in Surfside, FL
What lies at the root of Schultze's great abstraction is Surrealist nature, mainly the woods, the roots, the undergrowth. Without being depictive at all, Schultze refers in his image...
Category
1960s Surrealist Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Charcoal, Tissue Paper, Carbon Pencil, Mixed Media
Untitled, 1953
By Bernard Schultze
Located in Summit, NJ
Great oil on paper by Bernard Schultze. Great energy and colors on this 1953 piece. It is signed and there are additional notations on the back, country of origins, address. The piec...
Category
1950s Abstract Bernard Schultze Art
Materials
Paper, Oil
Bernard Schultze art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a wide variety of authentic Bernard Schultze art available for sale on 1stDibs. You can also browse by medium to find art by Bernard Schultze in etching and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 20th century and is mostly associated with the modern style. Not every interior allows for large Bernard Schultze art, so small editions measuring 4 inches across are available. Customers who are interested in this artist might also find the work of Jan Voss, Horst Antes, and Reiner Schwarz. Bernard Schultze art prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $446 and tops out at $850, while the average work can sell for $648.