683 - Schultze, Bernard (Schneidemühl 1915 - 2005 Cologne). Collection of 18 sheets with portrait sketches, among other works. Various techniques (graphite, pencil, pen, red chalk, etc.). Circa 1950. One sheet monogrammed. Sizes 18 x 10 to 41 x 37 cm.

Schultze, Bernard (Schneidemühl 1915 - 2005 Cologne). Collection of 18 sheets with portrait sketches, among other works. Various techniques (graphite, pencil, pen, red chalk, etc.). Circa 1950. One sheet monogrammed. Sizes 18 x 10 to 41 x 37 cm. Bernhard Schultze is considered one of the great German abstract painters of the second half of the 20th century. In 1944, his early works were destroyed in an air raid on Berlin. Schultze increasingly dissolved his figurative early work in the early 1950s. In 1952, he founded the informal painting group 'Quadriga' together with Karl Otto Götz and others.] This first avant-garde group of artists in post-war Germany succeeded in achieving international recognition for German art after 1945. - Predominantly portraits of the Lorenzen family from the artist's early work, also 'Seaman', a colored Easter card, and preliminary work with a sketch of Flensburg for a birthday card from 1947. - Some foxing, paper mostly browned and with edge tears. - Provenance: From the collection of the family of Dr. Lorenzen.