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Bernard Schultze: A Bright Wisp, a Glistening Wind

A 100th Birthday Celebration
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Marking what would have been Bernhard Schultze's 100th birthday, this publication celebrates the extensive work of a pivotal figure in Art Informel. Featuring around eighty pieces, it showcases a range of media from delicate drawings to vibrant oil paintings, as well as important reliefs and sculptures. As a co-founder of the QUADRIGA artists' group, Schultze played a key role in shaping post-war German art through his focus on intuitive creativity over realism or geometric abstraction. Accompanied by insightful essays and poetry from historians, artists, and Schultze himself, the book offers a comprehensive appreciation of his innovative oeuvre.
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Ideal for enthusiasts of modern art, art history students, and those interested in post-war European artistic movements, especially Art Informel and abstract expressionism.

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Featuring texts by art historians, authors, psychoanalysts and fellow artists, this book presents delicately coloured and black-and-white drawings and boldly colourful oil paintings as well as Schultze's important reliefs and sculptures.

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31 May 2015 would have been Bernhard Schultze's one-hundredth birthday. On the occasion of this anniversary, the publication featuring approximately eighty works of art honours the extensive oeuvre of one of the most important Art Informel artists.

As a co-founder of the QUADRIGA artists' group, Bernhard Schultze made an important contribution to the establishment of Art Informel in Germany. This art movement rejected both realistic figuration and "formulaic" geometric abstraction, drawing instead on intuitive creative powers.

The book presents delicately coloured and black-and-white drawings and boldly colourful oil paintings, as well as Schultze's important reliefs and sculptures. Texts by art historians, authors, psychoanalysts, and fellow artists, alongside texts and poems by Bernhard Schultze himself, paint a multifaceted picture of this important post-war artist's oeuvre.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9783777424200

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 05 October 2015

Country: Germany

Imprint: Hirmer Verlag

Illustration: Illustrated in colour and black and white throughout

Contributors:

  • Edited by Oliver Kornhoff

Audience: Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Width: 240.0mm

Height: 310.0mm

Weight: 1050g

Pages: 120

About the Author

Oliver Kornhoff is director of the Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck in Remagen, Germany.

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