About the work

He is seen as the Romantic  among the Informal artists. Still oriented to the fantastic world of Surrealism at the beginning of his career, Bernard Schultze later developed a highly independent, lyrical-abstract pictorial language under the influence of Tachism and action painting. Natural processes, rampant colours and forms, an assiduous growing and changing characterise his pictorial language.
The painting with the title “Felder-Gestalt” is gossamer, hazy and finely spun. His delicate web unfolds in an organic, irregular weave of lines, interwoven by tender branches and textures in an assortment of colours. The image area appears to be in incessant movement, always reforming and rearranging itself.
Here one hears the Écriture automatique of the Surrealists from a distance, the automatic, unconscious writing without the control of the conscious ego - a work method "dictated by the unconscious”, which Schultze, according to his own statements, had already registered without ever having heard of the poet André Breton. "It is the approximate that attracts me", according to the elderly artist, "never to express something too clearly, in order to avoid endangering the phenomenon of automation. It is often the scribblings that point us to the next step.”