Bernard Schultze
1915 - 2005
Mond-Verlangen nach der Erde. 1983.
Mixed media on canvas.
Signed and dated lower right. Signed, dated, and titled again on the reverse of the canvas. 200 x 135 cm (78.7 x 53.1 in).
The work is listed in the artist's handwritten catalog of works. [MH].

• Bernard Schultze is one of the most important protagonists of gestural abstract art in Germany.
• The protruding, relief-like material from the surface visualizes the tension between the moon and the earth—a formal counterpart to the movement of approach and attraction implied in the title.
• “Mond-Verlangen nach der Erde” (Moon Longing for the Earth) allows material and space to merge into a cohesive unity of content.

PROVENANCE: Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt a. Main.
The Gallery, Mührsbach (with the stamp on the reverse)
Private collection, Berlin (since 2020, Grisebach, Berlin).

EXHIBITION: Informel. Die Malerei der Informellen heute (Informel: Informal Painting Today), Saarland Museum, Modern Gallery, Saarbrücken, May 8–June 19, 1983, p. 249 (with illustration on p. 182).
Thirty-nine Glances into the Camp, Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt am Main, April 25–May 27, 1995 (with illustration on p. 9).
Quadriga in Progress. Old and New Works by K.O. Götz, Otto Greis, Heinz Kreutz, Bernard Schultze. On the 50th anniversary of a famous exhibition at the Zimmergalerie Franck in Frankfurt, Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt am Main, August 29–October 12, 2002.
Bernard Schultze “in blühendem Fieber” (in blooming fever). Paintings, migofs, watercolors, drawings, Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt am Main, May 29–July 30, 2005.

LITERATURE: Stephan Diederich, Barbara Herrmann, Bernard Schultze. Catalog of Works, Vol. 2: 1939–1989, Cologne/Munich 2015, WVZ No. 83/17 (with ill.).
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Maria Rothe, Bernard Schultze, Stock Catalog Galerie Rothe, Frankfurt am Main, 1991, p. 38 (with ill.).
Grisebach, Berlin, 320th Auction, July 10, 2020, Lot 287.

In good condition. With minor abrasions and slight color loss in the relief-like areas. With craquelure, mainly in the lower part of the picture. The condition report was compiled in daylight with the aid of a UV light source and to the best of our knowledge and belief.
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