Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 123000170
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123000170
Emil Schumacher
Afri, 1962.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 35,000 - 45,000
$ 40,250 - 51,750
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
123000170
Emil Schumacher
Afri, 1962.
Oil on canvas
Estimate:
€ 35,000 - 45,000
$ 40,250 - 51,750
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Afri. 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. On the reverse, on the stretcher, titled and inscribed “Emil Schumacher HAGEN” and “862”. 100 x 80 cm (39.3 x 31.4 in).
• By layering and scraping away the material, Schumacher develops his uniquely distinctive visual language.
• A powerful work in the typical style of the Informel movement.
• In the year the work was created, Emil Schumacher received the Cardazzo Prize at the 31st Venice Biennale.
• Participant in documenta II (1959) and III (1964) in Kassel, and in the 1966 International Biennial Exhibition of Art in Tokyo.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Munich (1981).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (in the family’s possession ever since).
LITERATURE: Werner Schmalenbach. Emil Schumacher, Cologne 1981, cat. no. 41, illustrated on p. 150.
“I approach the painting directly; in doing so, there is always an encounter between the material and me, and I often let it take the lead, for I have learned that it is wiser than any calculation.”
Emil Schumacher, 1957.
1912 - 1999
Afri. 1962.
Oil on canvas.
Signed and dated in the lower right corner. On the reverse, on the stretcher, titled and inscribed “Emil Schumacher HAGEN” and “862”. 100 x 80 cm (39.3 x 31.4 in).
• By layering and scraping away the material, Schumacher develops his uniquely distinctive visual language.
• A powerful work in the typical style of the Informel movement.
• In the year the work was created, Emil Schumacher received the Cardazzo Prize at the 31st Venice Biennale.
• Participant in documenta II (1959) and III (1964) in Kassel, and in the 1966 International Biennial Exhibition of Art in Tokyo.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Munich (1981).
Private collection, North Rhine-Westphalia (in the family’s possession ever since).
LITERATURE: Werner Schmalenbach. Emil Schumacher, Cologne 1981, cat. no. 41, illustrated on p. 150.
“I approach the painting directly; in doing so, there is always an encounter between the material and me, and I often let it take the lead, for I have learned that it is wiser than any calculation.”
Emil Schumacher, 1957.
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