Emil Schumacher

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Emil Schumacher, 1981. Photo: Ralf Cohen, Karlsruhe

Emil Schumacher (born August 29, 1912 in Hagen , Westphalia ; † October 4, 1999 in San José , Ibiza ) was a German painter and representative of the Informel .

Life

Emil Schumacher was born on August 29, 1912 as the third child of Anna and Emil Schumacher in Hagen. From 1926 to 1931 he attended secondary school in Hagen.

Schumacher studied from the winter semester 1931/32 to the end of the winter semester 1933/1934 advertising graphics at the crafts and arts and crafts school in Dortmund. From 1935 to 1939 he worked as a freelance painter without taking part in exhibitions.

After the transfer of power to the National Socialists, Schumacher was not accepted into the Reich Chamber of Fine Arts on charges of " cultural Bolshevism " . During the war years he was a technical draftsman in the accumulator works, a Hagen armaments company. In 1941 he married Ursula Klapprott. Immediately after the end of the war he made a new start as a freelance artist.

1947 to 1953

After the Second World War, Schumacher began with cubist landscapes, in 1947 he had his first solo exhibition in the studio for new art in Wuppertal, which was set up by the architect Rasch, and became a co-founder of the artists' association Junge Westen . In 1948 he received the Young West Art Prize of the city of Recklinghausen, in the same year the Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen bought two of his pictures, still lifes and still lifes with mushrooms . In the 1950s he developed works that lived only from color, without any structural framework. The dominant theme of his work is the intrinsic value of color and color matter.

From 1954

In 1954, Schumacher took part in the exhibition German Art after 45 , organized by Willem Sandberg in the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, where contemporary art from Germany was shown abroad for the first time after the war. From 1955, Schumacher became known for his first exhibitions and prizes; his participation in the 29th Venice Biennale in 1961 and the Guggenheim Award (National Section) in 1958 document his international breakthrough.

In 1959 Emil Schumacher took part in the documenta II in Kassel . From 1958 to 1960 he held a professorship at the University of Fine Arts in Hamburg . Between 1961 and 1972 Emil Schumacher was a board member of the German Association of Artists . From 1966 to 1977 he was a professor at the State Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe .

In 1964 he was represented with three large-format pictures at documenta III , and in 1977 at documenta 6 in Kassel . Today his works hang between New York and Munich in many important museums around the world. His numerous works of art for public spaces include a. large-format mosaic works for the Colosseo underground station in Rome .

Awards (selection)

museum

In his hometown of Hagen, the Kunstquartier Hagen was built between 2006 and 2009 , which unites the Osthaus Museum and - in his honor - the newly built Emil Schumacher Museum in one museum ensemble. In July 2006, construction work began on the new building as well as the renovation and expansion of the Osthaus Museum. The opening was celebrated on August 28, 2009. The art historian Rouven Lotz has been the scientific director of the Emil Schumacher Museum since 2011 .

Works in museums in Germany (selection)

Berlin: National Gallery , State Museums in Berlin - Prussian Cultural Heritage

Bochum: Art Museum Bochum , art collections of the Ruhr University Bochum , situation art (for Max Imdahl)

Bonn: Art Museum Bonn

Bremen: Kunsthalle Bremen

Dortmund: Museum Ostwall

Düsseldorf: Art Collection North Rhine-Westphalia , Museum Kunstpalast

Duisburg: Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum , MKM - Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art

Emden: Kunsthalle Emden - Henri and Eske Nannen Foundation and Otto van de Loo donation

Essen: Museum Folkwang

Frankfurt: Städel Museum , MKM - Museum of Modern Art

Freiburg: Augustinian Museum

Hagen: Osthaus Museum Hagen , Emil Schumacher Museum

Hamburg: Hamburger Kunsthalle

Hamm: Gustav Lübcke Museum

Hanover: Sprengel Museum

Herne: Emschertal Museum

Jena: Art Collection , Jena Municipal Museums

Kaiserslautern: Palatinate Gallery

Karlsruhe: State Art Hall , ZKM - Center for Art and Media Technology

Kassel: Hessian State Museum

Kiel: Kunsthalle Kiel

Cologne: Museum Ludwig

Künzelsau: Museum Würth

Leverkusen: Museum Morsbroich

Ludwigshafen: Wilhelm Hack Museum

Lübeck: Kunsthalle St. Annen Museum

Mannheim: Kunsthalle Mannheim

Mülheim / Ruhr: Mülheim an der Ruhr art museum

Munich: Pinakothek der Moderne

Münster: LWL Museum for Art and Culture

Recklinghausen: Kunsthalle Recklinghausen

Saarbrücken: Saarland Museum-Modern Gallery

Siegen: Museum of Contemporary Art Siegen

Stuttgart: State Gallery , Art Museum , Institute for Foreign Relations

Ulm: Museum Ulm

Wiesbaden: Museum Wiesbaden

Witten: Märkisches Museum

Wolfsburg: Wolfsburg Art Museum

Wuppertal: From the Heydt Museum

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1946: Studio Rasch, Wuppertal
  • 1948: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum of the City of Hagen
  • 1958: Stadler Gallery, Paris
  • 1960: Samuel M. Kootz Gallery, New York
  • 1961: Kestner Society , Hanover
  • 1962: XXXI. Venice Biennale / Venice
  • 1962: Galleria la Medusa, Rome
  • 1963: VII São Paulo Biennale , São Paulo
  • 1968: Lefebre Gallery, New York
  • 1975: Galeria Internacional de Arte, Madrid
  • 1975: Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum of the City of Hagen
  • 1990: Josef Albers Museum , Bottrop
  • 1997/1998: Emil Schumacher - Retrospective | Rétrospective , Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume / Paris, Hamburger Kunsthalle / Hamburg, Haus der Kunst / Munich
  • 1997: Sprengel Museum , Hanover
  • 2001: Emil Schumacher - works from seven decades , Kunsthalle Emden , Foundation Henri Eske and Nannen, Emden
  • 2003: Villa Wessel Iserlohn - Kraft Bretschneider Collection
  • 2010: Nolde / Schumacher - Kindred Souls, Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen / Berlin
  • 2012/13: Schumacher Africa - Schumacher's pictures in dialogue with monumental sculptures from the Niger Delta, Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen
  • 2013: "Painting is increased life" - Emil Schumacher in an international context, Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen
  • 2013: Emil Schumacher - Adventure Painting, Ulmer Museum , Ulm
  • 2013: Emil Schumacher - Animated Matter , Kunsthalle St. Annen, Museum Quarter St. Annen , Lübeck
  • 2013: Young-Jae Lee and Emil Schumacher, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen
  • 2013/14: Norbert Kricke and Emil Schumacher - Positions in Sculpture and Painting after 1945, Emil Schumacher Museum , Hagen
  • 2016/17: Gilgamesch - Builders and Schumacher, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen
  • 2018/19: Emil Schumacher - Inspiration and Resistance , Museum Küppersmühle for Modern Art , Duisburg

Works (selection)

Literature (selection)

  • Emil Schumacher - Wheels: Werk , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Dortmund 2018, ISBN 978-3-86206-719-0
  • Emil Schumacher - Pastoral - Bukolic Scenes , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-86206-667-4
  • Emil Schumacher - Travel Pictures from the Orient , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-86206-590-5
  • Emil Schumacher - Boscone - Faszination Baum , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Dortmund 2016, ISBN 978-3-86206-551-6
  • Emil Schumacher - image and material , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Also exhib.cat .: "Objet Trouvé", Hagen, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-489-2
  • Emil Schumacher - 1945 - Seeing again in the rubble , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Dortmund 2015, ISBN 978-3-86206-465-6
  • Norbert Kricke and Emil Schumacher - Positions in Sculpture and Painting after 1945 , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-315-4
  • Young-Jae Lee and Emil Schumacher , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-272-0
  • Emil Schumacher - Sommerfreuden , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Bönen 2013, ISBN 978-3-86206-280-5
  • Emil Schumacher - Free like a bird , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Bönen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86206-218-8
  • “Painting is increased life” - Emil Schumacher in an international context , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Hagen, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7774-5801-4
  • Brothers Grimm , Schneeweißchen and Rosenrot with illustrations by Emil Schumacher from 1948 , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Cologne 2012, ISBN 978-3-86832-091-6
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse: Emil Schumacher. The experience of the unknown. Ostfildern 2012. (= writings of the Emil Schumacher Foundation, vol. 2.), ISBN 978-3-7757-2082-3
  • Schumacher - Africa. Schumacher's pictures in dialogue with monumental sculptures from the Niger Delta , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhibition catalog: Hagen 2011, ISBN 978-3-9811930-3-9
  • Emil Schumacher - creature horse , Ulrich Schumacher / Rouven Lotz (eds.), Exhib.cat .: Warendorf, Bönen 2011, ISBN 978-3-86206-141-9
  • Ernst-Gerhard Güse (Ed.): Emil Schumacher. Life in painting. Conversations and texts. Ostfildern 2008. (= publications of the Emil Schumacher Foundation, vol. 1.)
  • Emil Schumacher. Closer to the earth than to the stars. Painting 1936–1999. Hirmer, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-7774-3585-5 .
  • Hans Gercke, Peter Anselm Riedl, Christoph Zusatz (eds.). Emil Schumacher. Last pictures 1997–1999. Exhibition catalog Heidelberg, Cologne 2000.
  • Peter Prange:  Schumacher, Emil. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 23, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2007, ISBN 978-3-428-11204-3 , pp. 734-736 ( digitized version ). * Schumacher, Emil , in: Hans Vollmer (Ed.): General Lexicon of the Visual Artists of XX. Century. Fourth volume (QU) , EA Seemann, Leipzig 1999 (study edition). ISBN 3-363-00730-2 . (P. 234)
  • Christoph surcharge: The unknown Schumacher. A rediscovered mural in Hagen. In: Weltkunst , 65, 1995, No. 24, pp. 3498-3500.
  • Michael Klant / Christoph Zusatz (eds.): Emil Schumacher in conversation. "Closer to the earth than to the stars". Stuttgart 1992.
  • Christoph Zusatz: "All painting is destruction". Notes on an aspect of Emil Schumacher's work. In: Kunstpresse , August 1992, pp. 30–33.
  • Werner Schmalenbach: Emil Schumacher. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7701-1269-5

Web links

Commons : Emil Schumacher  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Ivo Kranzfelder:  Platschek, Hans. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 20, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-428-00201-6 , p. 515 f. ( Digitized version ).
  2. ↑ kuenstlerbund.de: Board members of the German Association of Artists since 1951 ( Memento from December 17, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (accessed on August 24, 2018)
  3. ↑ Merit holders since 1986. State Chancellery of the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, accessed on March 11, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Schumacher, Emil
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Hagen , Germany
DATE OF DEATH 4th October 1999
Place of death San José in Ibiza, Spain