Lot 2 | Bernard Schultze | "blumig-knöchern"

SCHULTZE, BERNARD
1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne

Title: "blumig-knöchern".
Date: 1991.
Technique: Oil and sculptural materials on canvas.
Measurement: 120 x 53 x 27cm.
Notation: Dated and signed lower left: 91 B. Schultze. Also labeled verso: Bernard Schultze, 91, "blumig-knöchern".
Condition: For a condition report, please contact Ms. Janine Breidenbend at j.breidenbend@van-ham.com.


The sculptural reliefs matured from Bernard Schultze's need to expand the two-dimensional picture surface. The undulating surfaces gradually break up and grow organically out of the picture, hanging down like "flowery bones".

Provenance:
- Estate of the artist
- Folkwang-Museumsverein e.V., Essen

Exhibitions:
- 5th Triennale Fellbach, Fellbach-Duisburg 1992

Literature:
- Diederich, Stephan/Herrmann, Barbara (publ.): Bernard Schultze, Verzeichnis der Werke, vol. III, 1990 to 2005, Cologne 2015, p. 656, no. 91/9.
- Brockhaus, Christoph/Knubben, Thomas: 5th Triennial Fellbach 1992. Small Sculpture in Mexico, Spain, Italy, Germany, exhib. cat. Schwabenlandhalle, Fellbach/Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum, Duisburg, Fellbach 1992, p. 256, ill. p. 256.

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.