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120000250
Emil Schumacher
Kinabalu, 1990.
Oil on panel, with materials such as leafes and...
Estimate:
€ 90,000 - 120,000
$ 104,400 - 139,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Kinabalu. 1990.
Oil on panel, with materials such as leafes and other found objects.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 170 x 125 cm (66.9 x 49.2 in).
[AR].
• Compelling material painting displaying extraordinary intensity and vibrant colors.
• “Kinabalu” is charecterized by Schumacher’s typical expressiveness combined with fragile elements, and by abstraction with implied references to reality.
• Important exhibition history.
• Part of an extensive Schumacher collection: in private ownership for almost 30 years.
The work is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under the inventory number “0/367.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind support.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1997).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher. Recent Paintings, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, March 14–April 6, 1991 (illustrated in color, no page)
Emil Schumacher 1990–1991. Zehn Jahre bei Hans Strelow, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, November 8–December 31, 1991 (illustrated in color, no page).
Emil Schumacher. Musei e cultura Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, November 25–December 11, 1994 ( illustrated in color on p. 193).
Emil Schumacher. Späte Bilder, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Luxemburg, June 28–September 1, 1995 (illustrated on p. 15).
Begegnung mit Zeitzeugen. Malerei und Skulptur – 50 Jahre Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 5–October 31, 1996.
Emil Schumacher zu Gast in der Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, January 22–April 15, 1997.
Emil Schumacher. Der Erde näher als den Sternen. Malerei 1936-1999, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, February 18-May 13, 2007 / Museum Wiesbaden, June 3-September 30, 2007, cat. no. 84 ( illustrated in color on p. 130).
Nolde / Schumacher. Verwandte Seelen, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, October 23, 2010–January 23, 2011 / Nolde Foundation Seebüll, Berlin branch, March 11–June 19, 2011, cat. no. 54 (with color ill. p. 90).
Emil Schumacher. Beseelte Materie. Anniversary exhibition marking 10 years of the Kunsthalle St. Annen, St. Annen Museum, Lübeck, May 5–September 8, 2013 ( illustrated in color on p. 68).
Emil Schumacher. Inspiration und Widerstand, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, November 14, 2018–March 10, 2019 (illustrated in color on p. 99).
Emil Schumacher – The Hildegard and Ferdinand Kosfeld Collection, Ketterer Kunst Berlin, December 18, 2020–March 6, 2021 ( illustrated in color on the cover and on p. 17).
LITERATURE: Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Ein Kreis schließt sich. Der Zusammenhang von Frühwerk und späten Bildern im Werk Emil Schumachers, in: Catalog accompanying the Emil Schumacher Exhibition. Späte Bilder, Luxembourg 1995 ( illustrated in color, p. 15).
Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012 (illustrated in color on p. 352).
"The defining quality of Emil Schumacher's work is its intensity, an intensity that rejects anything incidental or anecdotal and which, over the years, has become increasingly dense and powerful in terms of color and form."
Karl Ruhrberg (former director of the Museum Ludwig) about Emil Shumacher, in: Tayfun Belgin (ed.), Kunst des Informel, Cologne 1997, p. 154.
Oil on panel, with materials such as leafes and other found objects.
Signed and dated in the lower left. 170 x 125 cm (66.9 x 49.2 in).
[AR].
• Compelling material painting displaying extraordinary intensity and vibrant colors.
• “Kinabalu” is charecterized by Schumacher’s typical expressiveness combined with fragile elements, and by abstraction with implied references to reality.
• Important exhibition history.
• Part of an extensive Schumacher collection: in private ownership for almost 30 years.
The work is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under the inventory number “0/367.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind support.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf.
Private collection, Germany (acquired from the above in 1997).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher. Recent Paintings, André Emmerich Gallery, New York, March 14–April 6, 1991 (illustrated in color, no page)
Emil Schumacher 1990–1991. Zehn Jahre bei Hans Strelow, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf, November 8–December 31, 1991 (illustrated in color, no page).
Emil Schumacher. Musei e cultura Pinacoteca comunale Casa Rusca, Locarno, November 25–December 11, 1994 ( illustrated in color on p. 193).
Emil Schumacher. Späte Bilder, Deutsche Bank Luxembourg, Luxemburg, June 28–September 1, 1995 (illustrated on p. 15).
Begegnung mit Zeitzeugen. Malerei und Skulptur – 50 Jahre Landtag Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, September 5–October 31, 1996.
Emil Schumacher zu Gast in der Gemäldegalerie Neue Meister, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, January 22–April 15, 1997.
Emil Schumacher. Der Erde näher als den Sternen. Malerei 1936-1999, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, February 18-May 13, 2007 / Museum Wiesbaden, June 3-September 30, 2007, cat. no. 84 ( illustrated in color on p. 130).
Nolde / Schumacher. Verwandte Seelen, Emil Schumacher Museum, Hagen, October 23, 2010–January 23, 2011 / Nolde Foundation Seebüll, Berlin branch, March 11–June 19, 2011, cat. no. 54 (with color ill. p. 90).
Emil Schumacher. Beseelte Materie. Anniversary exhibition marking 10 years of the Kunsthalle St. Annen, St. Annen Museum, Lübeck, May 5–September 8, 2013 ( illustrated in color on p. 68).
Emil Schumacher. Inspiration und Widerstand, Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, November 14, 2018–March 10, 2019 (illustrated in color on p. 99).
Emil Schumacher – The Hildegard and Ferdinand Kosfeld Collection, Ketterer Kunst Berlin, December 18, 2020–March 6, 2021 ( illustrated in color on the cover and on p. 17).
LITERATURE: Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Ein Kreis schließt sich. Der Zusammenhang von Frühwerk und späten Bildern im Werk Emil Schumachers, in: Catalog accompanying the Emil Schumacher Exhibition. Späte Bilder, Luxembourg 1995 ( illustrated in color, p. 15).
Ernst-Gerhard Güse, Emil Schumacher. Das Erlebnis des Unbekannten, Ostfildern 2012 (illustrated in color on p. 352).
"The defining quality of Emil Schumacher's work is its intensity, an intensity that rejects anything incidental or anecdotal and which, over the years, has become increasingly dense and powerful in terms of color and form."
Karl Ruhrberg (former director of the Museum Ludwig) about Emil Shumacher, in: Tayfun Belgin (ed.), Kunst des Informel, Cologne 1997, p. 154.
120000250
Emil Schumacher
Kinabalu, 1990.
Oil on panel, with materials such as leafes and...
Estimate:
€ 90,000 - 120,000
$ 104,400 - 139,200
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
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