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.

Artist: Bernard Schultze

Bernard SchultzeCarnival - Etching by Bernard Schultze - 1964, 1964

$604

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...

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1960s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

Bernard SchultzeHommage a Picasso, Etching by Bernard Schultze, 1973

$850

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...

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1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

John BaldessariKiss, Hair, Hands, 1986

$4,000

H 29 in W 19.75 in

Kiss, Hair, Hands

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: John Baldessari Title: Kiss, Hair, Hands Year: 1986 Medium: Etching with aquatint on Rives B.F.K paper Sheet: 29 x 19 3/4 inches (73.7 x 50.2 cm) Edition: 35; signed, numbere...

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1980s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching, Aquatint

John Sell CotmanAbbey Church of Jumièges. Elevation and parts of the nave., 1819

$350

H 14.89 in W 9.26 in

Abbey Church of Jumièges. Elevation and parts of the nave.

By John Sell Cotman

Located in Middletown, NY

Cornhill: J & A Arch, 1819. Etching and engraving on lightweight cream wove paper, 14 7/8 x 9 1/4 inches (378 x 235); sheet 18 3/4 x 13 1/8 inches (477 x 334 mm), full margin. In ve...

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Early 19th Century Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Handmade Paper, Engraving, Etching

Marta Wakula-MacNude VIII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, 2017

$229

H 6.5 in W 3.15 in

Nude VIII - XXI Century, Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print

By Marta Wakula-Mac

Located in Warsaw, PL

MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...

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2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Charles Frederick William MielatzCoenties Slip, 1907

$400

H 13.9 in W 9.77 in

Coenties Slip

By Charles Frederick William Mielatz

Located in Middletown, NY

Lower Manhattan and the Seaport as the artist imagined it would have appeared before 1835. New York: 1907. Etching with drypoint on Japon paper, 13 7/8 x 9 3/4 inches (353 x 248 mm...

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Late 19th Century American Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching, Drypoint, Handmade Paper

Harland MillerNarcissist Seeks Similar (Large), 2021

$71,921

H 78.23 in W 51.46 in

Narcissist Seeks Similar (Large)

By Harland Miller

Located in Bristol, GB

Etching with relief printing Edition of 45/50 Signed on the front, numbered on the back Mint Published by Manifold Editions, 2021 Our mission is to connect art collectors to opportu...

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21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

John BaldessariTwo Figures (One with Shadow), 1986

$3,500

H 20.5 in W 20 in

Two Figures (One with Shadow)

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: John Baldessari Title: Two Figures (One with Shadow) Year: 1986 Medium: Etching with aquatint on Rives B.F.K paper Sheet: 20 1/2 x 20 inches (52.07 x 50.8 cm) Edition: 35; si...

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1980s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Florent-Constant BourgeoisGrotta della Ninfa Egeria - Original Etching on Paper by Gili - 1804, 1804

$241

H 13.39 in W 19.3 in D 0.04 in

Grotta della Ninfa Egeria - Original Etching on Paper by Gili - 1804

Located in Roma, IT

Grotta della Ninfa Egeria is an original black and white etching on paper, realized by Florent-Constant Bourgeois in 1804.. It represents the Nymphaeum of Egeria, also known as the G...

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Early 19th Century Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

Charles CourtryLes Deux Foscari - Etching by Charles Courtry - 1891, 1891

$362

H 11.82 in W 16.54 in D 0.04 in

Les Deux Foscari - Etching by Charles Courtry - 1891

By Charles Courtry

Located in Roma, IT

Etching realized by Charles Courtry after Eugéne Delacroix in 1891. Not signed as issued, very good condition.

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1890s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

John BaldessariCavalry, 1986

$3,000

H 29.75 in W 22 in

Cavalry

By John Baldessari

Located in Calabasas, CA

Artist: John Baldessari Title: Cavalry Year: 1986 Medium: Etching with aquatint on Rives B.F.K paper Sheet: 29 3/4 x 22 inches (75.56 x 55.88 cm) Edition: 35; signed, numbered and da...

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1980s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Art WergerBeneath the Surface: Dissolve, by Art Werger, 1997

$800

H 24 in W 36 in

Beneath the Surface: Dissolve, by Art Werger

By Art Werger

Located in Palm Springs, CA

in Beneath the Surface: Dissolve, Werger captures a fleeting, immersive moment of swimmers beneath the rippling surface of a swimming pool. Echoing the iconic swimming pool paintings...

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1990s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Marta Wakula-MacMagnolia 10 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral, 2020

$217

H 5.91 in W 6.11 in

Magnolia 10 - Contemporary Figurative Drypoint Etching Print, Flower, Floral

By Marta Wakula-Mac

Located in Warsaw, PL

MARTA WAKUŁA-MAC: Master of Arts in Fine Art Education- Diploma in Fine Art Printmaking at the Institute of Art, Pedagogical University, Krakow, 2003. Member of Graphic Studio Dubl...

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2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Paper, Drypoint, Etching

Henry MooreSeated Figure (framed hand signed etching), 1979

$1,837Sale Price|25% Off

H 24 in W 20 in D 1 in

Seated Figure (framed hand signed etching)

By Henry Moore

Located in Aventura, FL

Etching on paper. Hand signed lower right by Henry Moore. Hand numbered 49/50 lower left. Sheet size 18.5 x 15 inches. Image size 8.625 x 6.5 inches. Frame size: approx. 24 x 2...

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1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Paper, Etching

Previously Available Items

Bernard SchultzeGerman Art Informel LOOKING IN THE LIGHTS, Assemblage, Collage Drawing, 1967

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H 20.75 in W 25.75 in

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...

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1960s Surrealist Bernard Schultze Art

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Mixed Media, Charcoal, Tissue Paper, Carbon Pencil

Bernard SchultzeUntitled, 1953, 1953

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H 19.5 in W 25.5 in D 0.25 in

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...

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1950s Abstract Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Paper, Oil

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