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Emil Schumacher
1912 - 1999
GB-12/1995. 1995.
Mixed media. Acrylic and white chalk.
Signed and dated in the bottom center. On black laid paper. 75 x 57 cm (29.5 x 22.4 in), the full sheet.
• Part of a major private collection for more than 25 years.
• Reputation and prestige: Schumacher participated in the documenta in Kassel on several occasions and was awarded, among other honors, the August Macke Prize (1978) and the Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany with Star (1983).
• Works by Emil Schumacher are held in the collections of the Hamburger Kunsthalle and the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, among others.
The work is registered in the archive of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under the inventory number “0/3.376.” We are grateful to Mr. Rouven Lotz, director of the Emil Schumacher Museum in Hagen, for his kind support.
PROVENANCE: Private collection, Germany (acquired from the artist in 1998).
EXHIBITION: Emil Schumacher—The Hildegard and Ferdinand Kosfeld Collection, Ketterer Kunst Berlin Representative Office, December 18, 2020–March 6, 2021.
LITERATURE: Christoph Zuschlag, Hans Bender, et al. (eds.), ART WORK by Emil Schumacher, in: Ingo R. Stoehr, Dimension. Contemporary German-Language Literature, Kilgore 1997 (with ill., p. 80).
In good condition. Slightly wavy due to the printing process. Described as unframed.
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