Sale: 605 / Day Sale, June 13. 2026 in Munich → Lot 125001019
125001019
Emil Schumacher
Bleibild B-3/1970, 1970.
Mixed media. Rolled lead with asphalt on hardboard
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 69,600 - 92,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
125001019
Emil Schumacher
Bleibild B-3/1970, 1970.
Mixed media. Rolled lead with asphalt on hardboard
Estimate:
€ 60,000 - 80,000
$ 69,600 - 92,800
Information on buyer's premium, taxation and resale right compensation will be available four weeks before the auction.
Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
Bleibild B-3/1970. 1970.
Mixed media. Rolled lead with asphalt on hardboard.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, and labeled “B-3/1970” on the reverse. 99.5 x 78 cm (39.1 x 30.7 in).
In the original frame. [AW].
• Using asphalt and rolled lead, Emil Schumacher breaks the rules of painting in this work.
• The protagonist of German Informalism creates an impressive haptic presence.
• Gestural, expressive work with deliberate color reduction and the original artist's frame.
• In 1959, 1964, and 1977, Schumacher participated in documenta II, III, and 6 in Kassel.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/73.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1989).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher. Bilder und Gouachen, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, October 7–November 6, 1976.
Emil Schumacher. Arbeiten 1959–1978, Kunstverein Brunswick, October 6–November 8, 1978.
1912 - 1999
Bleibild B-3/1970. 1970.
Mixed media. Rolled lead with asphalt on hardboard.
Signed in the lower right corner. Signed, dated, and labeled “B-3/1970” on the reverse. 99.5 x 78 cm (39.1 x 30.7 in).
In the original frame. [AW].
• Using asphalt and rolled lead, Emil Schumacher breaks the rules of painting in this work.
• The protagonist of German Informalism creates an impressive haptic presence.
• Gestural, expressive work with deliberate color reduction and the original artist's frame.
• In 1959, 1964, and 1977, Schumacher participated in documenta II, III, and 6 in Kassel.
The work is registered at the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, Germany, under the inventory number “0/73.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind asexpert advice.
PROVENANCE: Galerie Georg Nothelfer, Berlin.
Private collection, Berlin (acquired from the above in 1989).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher. Bilder und Gouachen, Neue Galerie der Stadt Linz, Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, October 7–November 6, 1976.
Emil Schumacher. Arbeiten 1959–1978, Kunstverein Brunswick, October 6–November 8, 1978.
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