# Bernhard Schultze artist context and auction value notes

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Profile generated: 2026-08-24T21:54:35.056Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1915-05-31
- Death date: 2005-04-14
- Nationality: German
- Movements: Art Informel, Abstract art
- Common media: Painting

## Portrait

![Bernhard Schultze](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/BernardSchultze1968.jpg/1280px-BernardSchultze1968.jpg)
Gerdschwenke · CC BY-SA 3.0
Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:BernardSchultze1968.jpg

## About Bernhard Schultze

Bernhard Schultze is the page name used here; authority and encyclopedia records more commonly identify the artist as Bernard Schultze. Born in 1915 in Schneidemühl, now Piła, and deceased in Cologne in 2005, he was a German abstract painter associated with Art Informel. The collected English-language biography also identifies him as a co-founder of the Quadriga group with Karl Otto Götz and two other artists, placing his practice within postwar German abstraction. In 1955 he married fellow painter Ursula Bluhm. Collectors may encounter his name in museum, library, catalogue, and auction records under either first-name spelling, so the variant is important when matching works and comparable sales. Available evidence supports his identity, dates, nationality, painting practice, Informel association, and Quadriga connection. It does not, however, establish a detailed chronology of his stylistic development, subjects, named bodies of work, or complete range of media.

## Common works and media

The defensible common work type in this source pack is painting, particularly abstract painting associated with Art Informel. The available sources do not provide enough evidence to characterize recurring subjects, named series, sculptures, drawings, prints, editions, posters, ceramics, or mixed-media objects as common parts of Schultze's auction market. Objects outside painting should therefore be matched to stronger medium-specific documentation before being presented as characteristic works.

## Market and appraisal context

Appraisal should begin by confirming that a work and its documentation refer to the same artist represented under the Bernhard and Bernard name variants. Appraisily indexes auction material for this artist, but the collected research pack contains no individual lot descriptions or realized-price evidence. It therefore cannot support a price trend or a claim that any particular characteristic commands a premium. A defensible valuation would require comparison with relevant public auction records and examination of the specific work's attribution, medium, date, dimensions, condition, provenance, and any edition information. Those object-level details should be assessed against genuinely comparable lots rather than inferred from the artist's general biography or record count.

## Appraisily data basis

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## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q822694
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500007165
- The Museum of Modern Art: https://www.moma.org/artists/5275
- Tate: https://www.tate.org.uk/art/artists/bernard-schultze-2277
- Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Schultze
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Schultze
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernard_Schultze
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/bernhard-schultze/