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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Jun 9, 2023 | Ketterer Kunst | Munich | Contemporary Art Day Sale | 104 | $****** - ****** | Für Bernhard |
paintings
100 x 79.5 cm (39.37 x 31.3 in)
Oil on cardboard on board
Lower right signed and dated. Signed and inscribed with the artist"s address on the reverse
Bernhard Minetti Collection, Berlin (since 1956, directly from the artist). German private collection (acquired from the above in 1999, Villa Grisebach auctions, Berlin, November 26, 1999).
• Impressive early exhibition history: " Für Bernhard " was on display in the "Gruppe 53" exhibition the year after it was made, which was so important for Schumacher, it was also part of the solo exhibitions at the Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, and at the Westfälische Kunstverein in Münster in 1961 and 1962. • Comparable works from the 1950s are part of important museum collections like the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Nationalgalerie Berlin and the Kunsthalle Hamburg. • In 1958, Schumacher received the Guggenheim Award, New York (National Section Germany) and took part in the XXIX Venice Biennale, followed by a participation in the documenta II in Kassel in 1959 . The work is registered in the archive with the number 0/3.984 and will be included into the fortcoming catalog raisonné. We are garteful to Mr Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, for his kind expert advice. Gruppe 53, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, January 20 - February 24, 1957. Emil Schumacher, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hanover, October 27 - December 3, 1961. mil Schumacher, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, January 20 - February 18, 1962 (with the exhibition label on the reverse). Emil Schumacher. Werke aus sieben Jahrzehnten, Herforder Kunstverein im Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus, Städtisches Museum, Herford, May 5 - July 8, 2001. Auf dem Weg zur Avantgarde. Künstler der Gruppe 53, Museum der Stadt Ratingen, September 14 - November 2, 2003. Farben sind Feste für die Augen. Emil Schumacher zum 100., Ernst Barlach Haus, Hamburg, October 14, 2012 - January 27, 2013. Emil Schumacher - Die Sammlung Hildegard und Ferdinand Kosfeld, Ketterer Kunst, Berlin, December 18, 2020 - March 6, 2021.
Villa Grisebach Auktionen, Berlin, 75th auction, Select Works, November 26, 1999, lot 79 (with full-page color illu.). Achim Sommer (ed.), Emil Schumacher. Werke aus sieben Jahrzehnten, ex. cat. Kunsthalle in Emden / Herforder Kunstverein im Daniel-Pöppelmann-Haus, Städtisches Museum Herford, Bielefeld 2001 (no illu.). Marie-Luise Otten, Auf dem Weg zur Avantgarde, in: ex. cat. Museum der Stadt Ratingen 2003 (with color illu., p. 127). Jens Christian Jensen u. a. (ed.), Farben sind Feste für die Augen. Emil Schumacher zum 100., Cologne 2012 (with color illu. plate 1).
Für Bernhard . 1956. Oil on cardboard on board. Lower right signed and dated. Signed and inscribed with the artist"s address on the reverse. 100 x 79.5 cm (39.3 x 31.2 in). • Early work from the sought-after 1950s. • In the mid-1950s, Schumacher succeeded in staging color as matter on the canvas, a discovery that was decisive for his entire painterly oeuvre.
