Background
Bernard Schultze was born on March 31, 1915 in Piła, Poland.
Bernard Schultze was born on March 31, 1915 in Piła, Poland.
Bernard studied at the art academies in Berlin and Düsseldorf from 1934 to 1939.
Bernard's entire work produced before 1945 was destroyed during an air-raid on Berlin in 1945. Schultze moved to Frankfurt two years later where he began making his first informel paintings in 1951.
An exhibition of the artist group "Quadriga" in 1952, of which he was a co-founder, in the "zimmer galerie franck" in Frankfurt included works by the artist. The group's aim was to move away from figurative and formalistic abstraction towards the international avant-garde movements Action Painting and Tachisme.
In 1955 Bernard made his first relief paintings with different materials stuck onto the canvas. The so-called "tabuskris" (tabulae scriptae), works combining painting and drawing made from 1957, were followed by the "Migofs" in 1961. This name, invented by Schultze, refers to constructions and creatures, which, in his eyes, exist among the creatures of nature.
Bernard travelled regularly to Paris and New York during this period, before moving from Frankfurt to Cologne in 1968. He travelled to Russia, the USA and Asia.
Schultze achieved an important late woke, on which he worked intensively until his death on April 14, 2005.
Anabisis
1988Ball-Trophäe
1967Blauer Vogelzug
2001Blumen-Getümmel
1988Bosch-Landschaft
1984Der Nibelungen frühe Tage
2002Ein Wispern um den gestürzten Hercules
1990Es blüht und glüht
2003Kleine Attacken
1997Hommage à Picasso
1974Innere Landschaft 1
1997Janus-Kopf
1992Kleine Attacken
1997Komposition abfallend
2003Kraut-Garten
1997Myrrst
1963Tanz-Migof
1992Vitalité
1955Vor heiteren Turbulenzen
1998Wege in die Irre
1992He was elected a member of the "Akademie der Künste" in Berlin in 1972. He was a member of the Quadriga group of artists along with Karl Otto Götz and two other artists.
In 1955 Schultze married the painter Ursula Bluhm.