About the exhibition
Born in 1915 and died in 2015, Schultze is a painter of “intimate abstraction”, just like Wols, Bryen or Réquichot. Each painting is a dive into the depths of a “self charged” with strangeness and mystery. We sense the artist preoccupied by the mutation of forms from the plant kingdom to the animal world. The very process of life is engaged in these paintings which reach a sacred dimension. The touch rich in material at the beginning of the fifties becomes more and more free and light to reach at the end of the artist's life a vibratory dimension going to the limits of evanescence.
The visionary gallery owner Daniel Cordier had signed a contract with Bernard Schultze. Several of his works appear in the Cordier donation to the Center Pompidou. The CNAC dedicated a retrospective exhibition to him in 1970 as well as the Kunsthalle in Dusseldorf in 1980. These works appear in the collections of many Museums including: Darmstadt, Duisburg, Hagen, Kassel, Paris, Wiesbaden, Wuppertal.
Kadaver-Kruzifix, 1999
Huile sur toile
130 x 90 cm
Signé et daté en bas à droite
breitet sich aus, 1955
Oil on canvas
137 x 104 cm
Signed lower left
Helles Gris, 2002
Oil on canvas
160 x 140 cm
Monogrammed and dated lower right