Lot 6 | Bernard Schultze | "Medea + Odysseus"

SCHULTZE, BERNARD
1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne

Title: "Medea + Odysseus".
Date: 2002.
Technique: Oil on canvas.
Measurement: 140 x 120cm.
Notation: Dated and monogrammed bottom right: 2002 BS. Signed, titled and dated on the verso: Bernard Schultze, "Medea + Odysseus", 2002. Stamp verso Viktoria Malleinen.
Condition: For a condition report, please contact Ms. Janine Breidenbend at j.breidenbend@van-ham.com.


Bernard Schultze's exploration of ancient literature culminates in this informal painting from his late work. The colorful intertwining hills, which reveal a view of a rising smoke element with mountain ranges and sky in the upper half, refer to the island of Aiaia, where the sorceress Circe lives. While, according to Homer, the Greek hero Odysseus spends a year on the island, the female figure Medea in the Argonaut saga is Circe's niece and visits the place with Iason after conquering the golden fleece.

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

Literature:
Diederich, Stephan/Herrmann, Barbara (publ.): Bernard Schultze, Verzeichnis der Werke, vol. III, 1990 to 2005, Cologne 2015, p. 982, no. 02/66.

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.