Lot 108
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108
Emil Schumacher
Action barbare, 1955.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Risultato:
€ 40,640 / $ 43,484 ( commissione inclusa)
Action barbare. 1955.
Oil on canvas.
Lower left signed and dated. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed as well as with a diretcion arrow on the reverse. Signed and inscribed with the artist's address on the stretcher. 96 x 115 cm (37.7 x 45.2 in).
• An extraordinarily varied work in the artist's oeuvre.
• Schumacher liberated color from form and the line from the representational motif.
• Other works from the 1950s are now part of important museum collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
The work is registered in the archive of Dr. Ulrich Schumacher under the number "0/3.978".
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Minetti Collection, Berlin.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
EXHIBITION: IX. premio Lissone. Lissone, Internazionale per la pittura, 1955, no number, fig. p. 58 (label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Ernst Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012, p. 247.
Oil on canvas.
Lower left signed and dated. Signed, dated, titled and inscribed as well as with a diretcion arrow on the reverse. Signed and inscribed with the artist's address on the stretcher. 96 x 115 cm (37.7 x 45.2 in).
• An extraordinarily varied work in the artist's oeuvre.
• Schumacher liberated color from form and the line from the representational motif.
• Other works from the 1950s are now part of important museum collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Kunsthalle Karlsruhe.
The work is registered in the archive of Dr. Ulrich Schumacher under the number "0/3.978".
PROVENANCE: Bernhard Minetti Collection, Berlin.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
Private collection Southern Germany.
Private collection Baden-Württemberg.
EXHIBITION: IX. premio Lissone. Lissone, Internazionale per la pittura, 1955, no number, fig. p. 58 (label on the stretcher).
LITERATURE: Ernst Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012, p. 247.
From 1950 onward, a radical change took place in Schumacher's oeuvre, which increasingly abandoned the object as a motif and opted for the expressive power of painting itself. This stylistic change took place against the backdrop of a contemporary style influenced by the French École de Paris, Tachism and American Action Painting. Schumacher added sand to the paint, in order to achieve the greatest possible materiality. The dualism of ground and painterly form is abolished by the impasto painting medium. The color becomes tangible in his works, not only visually but also haptically. The extremely impasto, linear painting itself can then rely on the already existing spatial material effect of the support. Schumacher's canvases gain plasticity. As the present work also shows, the painting is no longer understood as a window into a fantasized reality in a Renaissance sense; instead, the canvas becomes a carrier of materiality. [SM]
108
Emil Schumacher
Action barbare, 1955.
Olio su tela
Stima:
€ 40,000 / $ 42,800 Risultato:
€ 40,640 / $ 43,484 ( commissione inclusa)