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Emil Schumacher

Emil Schumacher (1912 - 1999) was active/lived in Germany.  Emil Schumacher is known for Painting and sculpture.

Emil Schumacher, born in the Westphalian town of Hagen in 1912, began a three-year degree at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Dortmund when he was 20 years old. b He started working as an independent artist in 1935 and founded the artist and exhibition association "Junger Westen" in 1947 together with a few other artists. 

The style of his work changed drastically in 1950.  He abandoned painting objects and turned towards the expressive power of painting alone.  Color itself gradually became the decisive element of his works.  This biographical artistic process happened during a period, which was determined by the French École de Paris, Tachism and American Action Painting.  While abstraction itself was typical of this period, it also became a typical aspect of Emil Schumacher's personal style.

During the late 1960s and early 1970s Schumacher experimented with a rigorous type of action painting, which is reflected above all in his "Hammerbilder<   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 3584 characters.]  Artist bio

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