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

$591

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

Charles DonkerBehind the Frog - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching, 2026

$1,077

H 7.88 in W 15.16 in

Behind the Frog - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching

By Charles Donker

Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant

Charles Donker Behind the Frog 20 x 38,5 (Framed included in price, 42 x 59 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and...

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2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

Charles DonkerForest VII - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching, 2026

$1,077

H 11.62 in W 9.38 in

Forest VII - 21st Century Contemporary Landscape Etching

By Charles Donker

Located in Nuenen, Noord Brabant

Charles Donker Forest VII 29,5 x 23,8 (Framed included in price, 52,5 x 45 cm) Etching on paper The etchings of Charles Donker are admired and collected both in the Netherlands and ...

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2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

Claes OldenburgStudy for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg, 1975

$1,125

H 37.75 in W 41.75 in

Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg

By Claes Oldenburg

Located in New York, NY

This sensuous and playful scene is characteristic of Oldenburg’s printmaking ouevre: a veritable heap of women displaying various expressions of ecstasy and repose. The loose sketches were drawn directly onto the plate by the artist, a master draftsman whose erotic etchings are largely unknown. The composition is based on the drawing: Clinical Study, Towards a Heroic-Erotic Monument in the Academic/Comic Style, 1965, ball-point pen on paper, 20 x 40 in. / 60 x 101.6 cm. *This print was etched in six gorgeous inks, each in an edition of ten: take your pick of color!* Oldenburg had an interest in imaginary monuments: he famously conceptualized works such as “Ball”, an unbuilt monument conceived of in 1967 which imagined two ballcocks – the round mechanism in a toilet tank...

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1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching

Jasper JohnsUntitled, 2010

$30,000

H 19 in W 21.5 in

Untitled

By Jasper Johns

Located in New York, NY

Jasper Johns Untitled 2010 Intaglio on Revere Standard White 19 x 21 1/2 inches 48 x 55 cm Edition of 50 Signed, dated, and numbered in graphite (lower recto) Frame available upon request Available from Matthew Marks Gallery...

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2010s Contemporary Bernard Schultze Art

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Intaglio, Etching

David HockneyRapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, 1969

$2,800

H 17.75 in W 16 in

Rapunzel, Rapunzel, let down your hair David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

By David Hockney

Located in New York, NY

From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel, which he chose for its popularity. When illustrating the princ...

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1960s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Giorgio De ChiricoTeseo, 1970

$1,500

H 16.88 in W 14.5 in

Teseo

By Giorgio De Chirico

Located in New York, NY

Color etching and aquatint, 1970. Signed by the artist in pencil, lower right. Numbered 2/50 in pencil, lower left. Titled in pencil, lower central. With the artist's blind stamp, l...

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1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching, Aquatint

David HockneyThe Enchantress with the Baby Rapunzel by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Tales, 1969

$900

H 17.75 in W 16 in

The Enchantress with the Baby Rapunzel by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Tales

By David Hockney

Located in New York, NY

From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. The Enchantress with the baby Rapunzel references a Heironymus...

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1960s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Claes OldenburgStudy for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg, 1975

$1,125

H 37.75 in W 41.75 in

Study for a Monument in the Heroic/Erotic/Academic/Comic Style Claes Oldenburg

By Claes Oldenburg

Located in New York, NY

Category

1970s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching

David HockneyThe Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969

$2,000

H 24.75 in W 17.75 in

The Princess in her tower David Hockney Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

By David Hockney

Located in New York, NY

One of David Hockney’s Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm illustrations, taken from the story of ‘The Little Sea Hare’. This tower was likely inspired by Hockney’s travels throu...

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1960s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Etching, Aquatint

David HockneyOld Rinkrank threatens the Princess by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales, 1969

$950

H 17.75 in W 16 in

Old Rinkrank threatens the Princess by David Hockney Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales

By David Hockney

Located in New York, NY

This etching from David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio depicts the somewhat obscure story Old Rinkrank, which Hockney chose to illustrate beca...

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1960s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

David HockneyThe Enchantress in her Garden David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, 1969

$850

H 17.75 in W 16 in

The Enchantress in her Garden David Hockney Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm

By David Hockney

Located in New York, NY

From David Hockney’s celebrated Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm portfolio, an image from the story of Rapunzel. Hockney stated: “The old woman who wants the child. In one tr...

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1960s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

Materials

Etching, Aquatint

Eileen SoperSpring Song /// Antique Female Artist Children Child Etching British Art, 1924

$350

H 8.13 in W 10.13 in

Spring Song /// Antique Female Artist Children Child Etching British Art

By Eileen Soper

Located in Saint Augustine, FL

Artist: Eileen Alice Soper (English, 1905-1990) Title: "Spring Song" *Signed by Soper in pencil lower right Year: 1924 Medium: Original Etching on cream laid paper Limited edition: 178 Printer: Likely printed by Eva Soper, London, UK Publisher: H C Dickens, London, UK Sheet size: 8.13" x 10.13" Image size: 6.63" x 9.63" Reference: "The Catalogue Raisonne of Prints and Etchings of George and Eileen Soper" - Beetles No. 83, page 119, 141, 157 Condition: Paper trimmed in the margins. A few faint areas of discoloration. It is otherwise a strong impression in very good condition Notes: Provenance: private collection - Boulder, CO. Biography: Eileen Soper was born in 1905 in the Municipal Borough of Enfield and moved to the house where she was to spend the rest of her life in Harmer Green, Welwyn in the Hertfordshire countryside in 1908. The house she later named "Wildings" was built by her father, the artist George Soper...

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1920s Modern Bernard Schultze Art

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Laid Paper, Drypoint, Etching, Intaglio

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

Materials

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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