Lot 326 
Raumbeispiel
326
Emil Schumacher
Bar-ba-rossa, 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Bar-ba-rossa. 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with a directionl arrow on the reverse of the canvas. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in). [AW].
• Extraordinary work in color and materiality.
• Schumacher liberates color from form and line from the objective subject.
• Works from the 1950s are part of important museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/91". We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Milan.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1994).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 200th auction, June 5, 1994, lot 143 (illustrated in color).
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 18.01 h +/- 20 min.
1912 - 1999
Bar-ba-rossa. 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right. Signed, dated, titled, and inscribed with a directionl arrow on the reverse of the canvas. 60 x 50 cm (23.6 x 19.6 in). [AW].
• Extraordinary work in color and materiality.
• Schumacher liberates color from form and line from the objective subject.
• Works from the 1950s are part of important museum collections today, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, the Hamburger Kunsthalle, and the Staatliche Kunsthalle in Karlsruhe.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/91". We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Milan.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1994).
LITERATURE: Ketterer Kunst, Munich, 200th auction, June 5, 1994, lot 143 (illustrated in color).
Called up: December 6, 2025 - ca. 18.01 h +/- 20 min.
326
Emil Schumacher
Bar-ba-rossa, 1955.
Oil, sand and silver on canvas
Estimate:
€ 30,000 - 40,000
$ 34,800 - 46,400
Buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation for Emil Schumacher "Bar-ba-rossa"
This lot can be purchased subject to differential or regular taxation, artist‘s resale right compensation is due.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
Differential taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 34 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 29 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 22 % and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The buyer's premium contains VAT, however, it is not shown.
Regular taxation:
Hammer price up to 1,000,000 €: herefrom 29 % premium.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 1,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 23% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 1,000,000 €.
The share of the hammer price exceeding 4,000,000 € is subject to a premium of 15% and is added to the premium of the share of the hammer price up to 4,000,000 €.
The statutory VAT of currently 7 % is levied to the sum of hammer price and premium.
We kindly ask you to notify us before invoicing if you wish to be subject to regular taxation.
Calculation of artist‘s resale right compensation:
For works by living artists, or by artists who died less than 70 years ago, a artist‘s resale right compensation is levied in accordance with Section 26 UrhG:
4 % of hammer price from 400.00 euros up to 50,000 euros,
another 3 % of the hammer price from 50,000.01 to 200,000 euros,
another 1 % for the part of the sales proceeds from 200,000.01 to 350,000 euros,
another 0.5 % for the part of the sale proceeds from 350,000.01 to 500,000 euros and
another 0.25 % of the hammer price over 500,000 euros.
The maximum total of the resale right fee is EUR 12,500.
The artist‘s resale right compensation is VAT-exempt.
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