Bernard Schultze - Artist Info

About Bernard Schultze

  • Biography

    Bernard Schultze was born on 31 May 1915 in Schneidemühl (West Prussia). After his Abitur he studied at the art academies in Berlin and Düsseldorf from 1934 to 1939. His 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 Schultze married the painter Ursula Blu...

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