Lot 7 | Bernard Schultze | "O-imb"

SCHULTZE, BERNARD
1915 Schneidemühl - 2005 Cologne

Title: "O-imb".
Date: 1958.
Technique: Oil and sculptural elements on canvas.
Measurement: 120x 117,5x 17cm.
Notation: Signed and dated lower right: Bernard Schultze 1958. Signed, dated and titled verso: "O-imb" (1958) Bernard Schultze, Frankfurt/M.
Frame/Pedestal: Frame (121 x 118,5cm).
Condition: For a condition report, please contact Ms. Janine Breidenbend at j.breidenbend@van-ham.com.


In the late 1950s, he produced a series of paintings that were transformed into reliefs by means of sculptural paste-ups. Onomatopoeic fantasy titles illustrate the complete renunciation of a reproduction of external reality. In a next step, these reliefs developed into the three-dimensional "Migofs", which have the character of artificial creatures.

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

Exhibitions:
- Künstlervereinigung "die Insel", Hamburg 1958
- Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover 1966
- Städtisches Museum Schloß Morsbroich, Leverkusen 1966
- Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe 1966
- Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris 1971

Literature:
- Diederich, Stephan (Hrsg.) / Herrmann, Barbara (Hrsg.): Bernard Schultze. Verzeichnis der Werke. 1939 bis 1989, Bd. 2, Köln 2015, S. 315, WVZ 58/22.

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 2019.