Bernard Schultze

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Bernard Schultze, 1968

Bernard Schultze (born May 31, 1915 in Schneidemühl , Province of Posen ; † April 14, 2005 in Cologne ) was a German painter and a representative of the Informel art movement .

Life

Schultze moved to Berlin in 1922, where his father was employed at the Berlin Supreme Court. There he attended school and developed his first taste for the arts. He spent the summers in Heringsdorf , Usedom . in the grandparents' villa Augusta.

Family grave at the Melaten cemetery in Cologne

He studied from 1934 to 1939 at the College of Art Education in Berlin and at the Art Academy in Düsseldorf. From 1939 to 1945 Schultze was stationed as a soldier in Russia and Africa. In a bomb attack on Berlin in 1944, all of the artist's works that had been created up to that point were burned. After the war, lived Schultze two years as a refugee in Flensburg until the father as High Court Judge at the Higher Regional Court of Frankfurt am Main was appointed. From 1947 to 1968 he lived in Frankfurt am Main and from 1951 he traveled regularly to Paris. Between 1952 and 1954 Victor Otto Stomps published three books with original graphic textures by Schultze in the Eremitenpresse in Stierstadt .

In autumn 1949 Schultze met the artist Ursula Bluhm (called Ursula) in the zimmergalerie franck; In 1955 the couple married. Schultze moved to Cologne in 1968 and was a member of the Akademie der Künste in Berlin between 1972 and 1992 , from which he left in 1992. Study trips took Schultze to the USA , many Asian countries, Mexico and Guatemala . He still painted until his death.

Bernard Schultze was buried in his wife's grave in Cologne's Melaten cemetery (hall 39).

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Some of his works hang in the dining room of Villa Hammerschmidt in Bonn

Schultze was one of the great German painters of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century. His early work was destroyed by an air raid on Berlin. In 1952, together with Karl Otto Götz , Otto Greis and Heinz Kreutz, he founded the Quadriga artist group, the core group of German informal painting.

Sustainably influenced by Wols (Otto Wolfgang Schulze) and Jean-Paul Riopelle , Tachism and Action Painting , Bernard Schultze developed a very personal style of gestural abstract painting. Schultze's works are often referred to as lyrically abstract . His predominantly colorful and meticulously produced paintings are full of elements that arouse the most diverse associations in the viewer. They usually contain allusions and quotes from nature, are reminiscent of roots, forests and other plants and imagine their own hermetic counter-realities.

The estate of the painter and his wife has been looked after by the VAN HAM Art Estate in Cologne since December 2018.

The Migofs

In the 1960s he expanded his oeuvre to include sculptures , Migofs as he called them, in which his pictorial language conquered the third dimension: Migof, an onomatopoeic word without an exact meaning, is the generic name for the sculptural figurations of Bernard Schultze, the , according to their designation, can even be only hinted at - in the Migof world everything is ambiguous. The Migofs are flexible, seemingly fragile structures that (as the Migof maker says) “stand between other creatures, between animals, plants, humans”. Equipped with a wire skeleton, a body made of paper or fabric, which is spanned by a colored skin, they are reminiscent of mandrakes, science fiction monsters, pathologically proliferating plants, of people at the moment of their transformation into trees: metamorphosis is a preferred state the Migof existence.

He integrates three-dimensional painted elements into tongue collages . During the 1970s he integrated elements from the shelves of consumer society into these sculptures, apparently inspired by Pop Art . In the 1980s he finally conquered the space of large paintings and he succeeded in producing an impressive work of his age, on which he worked intensively until shortly before his death.

Schultze was a member of the German Association of Artists , a participant in documenta II (1959), documenta III (1964), and also documenta 6 in 1977 in Kassel .

Honors

Exhibitions

Estate and Schultze Projects

The Ludwig Museum in Cologne houses a large part of the artistic estate of Ursula and Bernard Schultze. In September 2017, the Museum Ludwig calls the project series Schultze Projects to life . In memory of the artist couple, an artist is to be invited every two years to create a work for the prominent front wall in the museum's stairwell. The large-scale work format as a central aspect in the mature work of Bernard Schultze represents a substantial point of reference to the planned artistic positions of the Schultze Projects . The first artist in the project series is Wade Guyton .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Stephan Diederich, Barbara Hermann: Bernard Schultze. Catalog raisonné of paintings and objects. Ed .: Stephan Diederich, Barbara Hermann. tape 1 . Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-7774-2312-8 , p. 52 .
  2. ↑ https://www.bernard-schultze.org/fileadmin/Redaktion/Auktionen/Pressebericht/PM_-_VAN_HAM_-_Art_Estate_-_Neuer_Nachlass_bei_Van_Ham_Art_Estate_Bernard_Schultze_und_Ursula_Schultze-Bluhm.pdf
  3. ↑ Art Calendar. New in museums and galleries. In: zeit.de. November 1, 1974. Retrieved February 24, 2018 .
  4. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Full members of the Deutscher Künstlerbund since it was founded in 1903 / Schultze, Bernard ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (accessed on February 9, 2016)  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.kuenstlerbund.de
  5. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova . Roswitha Haftmann . P. 96
  6. ↑ Ludmila Vachtova. Roswitha Haftmann . P. 106
  7. ^ Museum Ludwig: Schultze Projects. (No longer available online.) Archived from the original on September 23, 2017 ; accessed on September 18, 2017 (German, English). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.museum-ludwig.de

literature

  • Bernard Schultze: The world of the Migofs . Baden-Baden 1974.
  • Kunstverein Darmstadt: German contemporary erasers. Darmstadt 1982, ISBN 3-7610-8121-9 , pp. 116f.
  • Rolf Wedewer , Lothar Romain (eds.): Bernard Schultze. Munich 1991.
  • Michael Klant, Christoph supplement (ed.): Bernard Schultze - Pictor Poeta. Poems and drawings 1990-1995 , Stuttgart: Cantz, 1995.
  • Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen (Hrsg.): Insights. The 20th century in the North Rhine-Westphalia Art Collection, Düsseldorf. Cantz, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000, ISBN 3-7757-0853-7 .
  • Gerhard Leistner (Ed.): Dance of the Migofs. Bernard Schultze 1915-2005. Regensburg 2005.
  • Sabina Schultze (Ed.): Bernard Schultze. Inner monologue. Cantz, Ostfildern 2005.
  • Theo Rommerskirchen: Bernard Schultze . In: viva signature si! Remagen-Rolandseck 2005, ISBN 3-926943-85-8 .
  • Peter Prange:  Schultze, Bornard. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 706 f. ( Digitized version ).
  • Walter Smerling; Eva Müller-Remmert (Ed.): Bernard Schultze: Gegenwelten . Wienand, Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-125-8 .
  • Stephan Diederich, Barbara Hermann: Bernard Schultze. Catalog raisonné of paintings and objects. Munich: Himer Verlag GmbH, 2015. ISBN 978-3-7774-2312-8 , 3 volumes, 1024 pages with 1402 illustrations in color and black and white.

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personal data
SURNAME Schultze, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter of the Art Informel art direction
DATE OF BIRTH May 31, 1915
PLACE OF BIRTH Schneidemühl , Pomerania
DATE OF DEATH April 14, 2005
Place of death Cologne , Germany