Sale: 429 / Post War / Contemporary Art, Dec. 04./05. 2015 in Munich Lot 323

 

323
Emil Schumacher
Ohne Titel, 1995.
Oil
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)
Ohne Titel. 1995.
Oil, Gouache und Pastell.
Rechts unten signiert und datiert. Auf grauem handgeschöpften Papier. 49.5 x 64 cm (19.4 x 25.1 in).

PROVENANCE: Sammlung Professor Jens Christian Jensen, Hamburg (direkt vom Künstler erworben).

While abstraction itself was typical of this period, it also became a typical aspect of Emil Schumacher's personal style. During the late 1960s and early 1970s Schumacher experimented with a rigorous type of action painting, which is reflected above all in his "Hammerbilder" (Hammer Paintings). The injury and damage to the picture support was to him a means of employing destruction itself as a pictorial phenomenon in art. After exhibiting at the documenta III in Kassel in 1964 he created extremely large works, which manifest an extreme painterly freedom. This phase lasted until the 1980s. His latest works of the 1990s, with figurative reminiscences, have clearly overcome the contrast between abstraction and the figurative.



323
Emil Schumacher
Ohne Titel, 1995.
Oil
Estimate:
€ 18,000 / $ 19,440
Sold:
€ 20,000 / $ 21,600

(incl. surcharge)