About the work

While Bernard Schultze’s paintings from the first phase of his work were still characterised by a dark, broken colour design in nuances of blue to green, his palette brightened in the early 1960s toward bright, more saturated colours, often defined by a dominating undertone, until it finally, interrupted by a period of grey grisaille painting, flowed into iridescent, nacreous variety. It often also asserts its validity in the vital later works.  
With baroque liveliness, so to speak, Schultze’s painting unfolds in this bright work permeated by light. In a free play of colours and forms, shimmering dapples, traces and colour tones conquer the canvas. Here, the artist, at least as suggested by the title of the painting, Sonnen-Flecken [Dapples of Sun], seems to be pursuing a distant cosmic occurrence: the mysterious phenomenon of the sun with its animated corona, the eruptions and ejections, dapples and filaments of its constantly changing surface. However, in this painting too, as always in Schultze’s work, this is an autonomous artistic creation in a state of permanent transformation and metamorphosis, oscillating between revealing and concealing, echoes of that seen and pure, non-representational painting.