SCHULZE, ANDREAS
1955 Hanover

Title: Untitled.
Date: 1983.
Technique: Dispersion on canvas.
Measurement: 200 x 295 cm.
Notation: Signed and dated verso upper left: A. Schulze 83.



Provenance:
- - Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin

- Private collection, Berlin



- Andreas Schulze is one of the great individualists of contemporary German painting

- An early, large-scale key work from a formative phase in Schulze’s oeuvre

- Iconic, surreal-abstract visual language with a strong presence and high recognition value



Born in Hanover in 1955, Andreas Schulze is one of the most independent voices in contemporary German art. After studying in Kassel and at the Düsseldorf Art Academy, where he became a master student of Dieter Krieg in 1983 and taught as a professor from 2008 to 2024, he developed a distinctive visual language early on. Although his work is situated within the context of New Figuration and the “Young Wild Ones,” it consistently defies stylistic categorization. His works combine figuration with abstraction and captivate with a naive, magical quality. He draws inspiration from Oskar Schlemmer, Pop Art, Surrealism, and naive art. Characteristic of his work are his surreal-seeming, often deserted visual worlds, in which everyday objects are transformed into ornamental, almost stage-like compositions.

The large-format painting from 1983 offered here was created during an early, decisive phase of his career. Against an intensely luminous, red-toned background, a central, amorphous form of impasto-like, cloud-like density unfolds. Gray-white, softly modeled structures seem to expand physically and are intersected by transverse, tube-like elements.







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