Sale: 425 / Post War / Contemporary Art, June 12./13. 2015 in Munich Lot 809

 

809
Emil Schumacher
Babalu, 1959.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 35,100

(incl. surcharge)
Babalu. 1959.
Oil on fibreboard.
Signed lower right. Verso with inscription 'Ausstellung Berlin / Haus am Waldsee'. Signed and dated as well as with title and inscription 'K11' on frame covering. 38 x 58.3 cm (14.9 x 22.9 in), visible area. [JS].

We are grateful to Dr. Ulrich Schumacher. Emil Schumacher Foundation Hagen, for his kind support in cataloging this lot.

PROVENANCE: Collection Ursula Schumacher, Hagen (with inscription on frame covering).

EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher, Kestner Gesellschaft Hanover, catalog no. 2 of exhibition year 1961/62, 27 October - 3 December, 1961, cat.- no. 56 (with label on frame covering).
Westfälischer Kunstverein, no date, cat. no. 49 (with cut out label on frame covering).

Emil Schumacher makes the color and the image carrier subject and actual protagonists of his art. While Schuhmacher explores and breaks the limits of two-dimensionality with his 'Tastobjekten' (Tactile Objects), made as of the 1950s, by mounting various materials such as screws, wood and cloth, he limits himself to image carrier and color as means of artistic expression in his paintings. In these works he makes the structure of the medium, its creasing and own form, palpable in a unique manner. Color and material merge and form a body which, congealed like a thick earthen crust, is at the center of our composition in reduced shades of gray and beige. The surface, structured by thickly applied colors, is broken up by scratched lines and scar-like incrustations. "It seems as if the artist had forced open the crust of the earth, leaving trenches and furrows on a quest for what becomes visible through the injury of the matter." (Karl Ruhrberg, in: Emil Schumacher. Zeichen und Farbe, ex. cat. Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum Hagen, Cologne1987, p. 22).



809
Emil Schumacher
Babalu, 1959.
Oil on fibreboard
Estimate:
€ 30,000 / $ 32,400
Sold:
€ 32,500 / $ 35,100

(incl. surcharge)