Schumacher, Emil G-12/1957. 57. Öl- und Tuschezeichnung... Lot n° 197

Schumacher, Emil G-12/1957. 57th oil and ink drawing on strong paper, mounted as collage on plywood board. 59,7 x 74,6 cm. Signed and dated. - Framed under mount and in box frame. Isolated slightly water or oil stained (work immanent). Provenance: Private collection, Berlin. - The work is listed in the catalog raisonné of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under inventory number 0/1.288. We kindly thank Mr. Rouven Lotz for information. - Until the 1950s, Emil Schumacher's work was still clearly more representational and the predominant character of Informel had not yet developed. As of the second half of the 1950s, Schumacher's development and turn towards the dissolution of the pictorial surface set in, so that with the present work we have one of the first testimonies of Schumacher's Informal painting, in which form is blown up and new form is constituted: "....can tell you that it is a very beautiful would like to say poetic work from the years..... This sheet has a lot of the mood of departure in which I was at that time and from it or other sheets of this period the series of tactile objects arose which caused a sensation also abroad (World Exhibition Brussels)...". - Emil Schumacher in a letter of February 28, 1987 about the present work. Oil and ink drawing on strong paper, mounted as collage on plywood board. Signed and dated. - Framed under passepartout and in box frame. Occasionally slightly water- and oilstained (inherent to the work). - Provenance: Private collection Berlin. - The work is listed in the catalogue raisonné of the Emil Schumacher Foundation in Hagen, compiled by Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, under inventory number 0/1.288. We would like to thank Mr. Rouven Lotz for his kind advice. Informel