Bernard Schultze
Bernard Schultze ( born May 31, 1915 in Pila, then province of Posen, German Empire today ( Greater Poland ), † 14 April 2005 in Cologne ) was a German painter and a representative of the Informal Art direction.
Life
At the age of seven he moved, by the employment of the father at the Berlin Court of Appeal conditionally, to Berlin. There he attended school and developed the first preference for the arts. He spent the summer on the island of Usedom in the grandparents' Villa Augusta in Heringsdorf.
He studied from 1934 to 1939 at the College of Art Education in Berlin and at the Art Academy in Dusseldorf. Between 1952 and 1954 Victor Otto Stomps published three books with original graphic textures of Schultze in the Eremitenpresse in bull city. In 1955 he married the painter and Ursula Bluhm. He moved in 1968 to Cologne and was 1972-1992 Member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin, which he left in 1992. Study trips Schultze in the U.S., many Asian countries, Mexico and Guatemala. On 14 April 2005, he died at the age of 89 years from the effects of pneumonia. Until the end he had painted.
Work
Schultze was one of the great German painter of abstraction in the second half of the 20th century. His early works were destroyed by an air raid on Berlin. In 1952 he founded, together with Karl Otto Götz Otto Greis and Heinz Kreutz group of artists Quadriga, the core group of the German informal painting.
Strongly influenced by wolf ( Otto Wolfgang Schulze ) and Jean -Paul Riopelle, Tachism and Action Painting, Bernard Schultze developed a very personal style of gestural abstract painting. Schultze's work is often referred to as lyrically abstract. His most colorful and detailed paintings meticulously produced are full of elements that arouse diverse associations in the viewer. They usually have allusions and quotations from nature, reminiscent of roots, forest and other plants and imagining very own hermetic opposite realities.
In the 1960s, he expanded his oeuvre to sculptures, " Migofs " as he called it, in which his imagery conquered the third dimension. In " tongues collages " he integrates three-dimensional painted elements. During the 1970s he incorporated into these sculptures, apparently stimulated from the pop-art elements from the shelves of consumer society. During the 1980's he finally conquered the area of large paintings and he manages an impressive late work, on which he worked intensively until shortly before his death. Bernard Schultze took part in documenta II (1959 ), the documenta III (1964 ), and also the documenta 6 in Kassel in 1977.
In 1966 he was awarded the art prize of the city of Darmstadt and in 1984 the Hessian Culture Award. In 1986, he was honored with the Lovis Corinth Prize. 2002 Schultze was awarded jointly with the other painters of the artist group Quadriga with the binding Culture Award.