Lot 9 | Bernard Schultze | "blühend, aber im Zerfall"

SCHULTZE, BERNARD
1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne

Title: "blühend, aber im Zerfall".
Date: 1995.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 100,5 x 120cm.
Notation: Signed and dated Bottom right: Bernard Schultze 95. Inscribed verso: Bernard Schultze 1995, "blühend, aber im Zerfall". Inscribed verso on the stretcher upper left Spinne. Inscribed verso on the stretcher lower center 167.
Condition: For a condition report, please contact Ms. Janine Breidenbend at j.breidenbend@van-ham.com.


The changeability of natural phenomena is the reason for the fascination of the lyrical forms in Schultze's work, which form a color composition by growing and fading. The black and grey elements emphasize the bright yellow areas and strong orange shapes that form volcano-like across the canvas.

Label on verso:
- Spedition Hasenkamp, Folkwang Museumsverein e.V. Essen
- Galerie Zellermayer

Provenance:
- Galerie Zellermayer (label)
- Estate of the artist
- Folkwang-Museumsverein e.V., Essen

Exhibitions:
- "Bernard Schultze Sonnen-Symphonie", Zellermayer Galerie, Berlin, 2012

Literature:
Diederich, Stephan/Herrmann, Barbara (publ.): Bernard Schultze, Verzeichnis der Werke, vol. III, 1990 to 2005, Cologne 2015, p. 760, no. 95/7.

VAN HAM Art Estate represents the artistic estate of part of the artistic estate of Bernard Schultze in cooperation with the Folkwang-Museumsverein in Essen since 2018.