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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 7, 2024 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Evening Sale | 9 | $****** - ****** | Matora |
paintings
53 x 136 cm (20.87 x 53.54 in)
Oil on panel.
Lower right signed and dated. With the handwritten title on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and the dimensions
Dr. Hanns Hülsberg Collection, Hagen. Ever since family-owned.
Emil Schumacher. Arbeiten 1960 bis 1971, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, November 5, 1971 - January 9, 1972, Düsseldorf, cat. no. 57. Emil Schumacher. Arbeiten 1960-1971, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, February 18 - March 26, 1972, cat. no. 57 ( with the label on the reverse). Christian Rohlfs - Emil Schumacher. Entwicklungen. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, May 26 - July 9, 1972. Emil Schumacher. Arbeiten 1957 bis 1975, Karl-Ernst-Osthaus-Museum, Hagen, February 1 - March 16, 1975, cat. no. 33.
Werner Schmalenbach, Emil Schumacher, Cologne 1981, p. 76, illu. no. 54 (here erroneously mentioned with the technique oil on canvas.). Manfred de la Motte, Dokumente zum deutschen Informel, cat. Galerie Hennemann, Bonn 1976, p. 198 (illu.). Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012, p.108 (illu. in color no 79 on p. 106). Ulrich Schumacher/Rouven Lotz, Malerei ist gesteigertes Leben, Munich 2012. "For the measure of the picture is the force that determines the line." Emil Schumacher, Ein Buch mit sieben Siegeln, Materie, 1972. “For Schumacher, blue was a ‘wonderful color", he had a complex understanding of it, related to vastness, distance, infinity, sky and sea." Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012, p. 108. Called up: June 7, 2024 - ca. 17.16 h +/- 20 min.
Emil Schumacher
Matora
1966.
Oil on panel.
Lower right signed and dated. With the handwritten title on the reverse, as well as inscribed with a direction arrow and the dimensions. 53 x 136 cm (20.8 x 53.5 in).
• Extremely sensual experience of form and color.
• Pronounced dialectic of monochrome color surface and graphic dynamics.
• His artistic quest to shape color as matter becomes literally tangible in the relief-like surface.
• The narrow horizontal format is a central component of his work; a comparable red variation is in the collection of the Sprengel Museum, Hanover (“Rubernos”, 1964).
• For the first time offered on the international auction market.
• From the important modern art collection of Dr. Hanns Hülsberg, Hagen
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The work is listed in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation, Hagen with the inventory number "0/3.707". We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.
