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Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur A. Goldberg, 1971
Catalogue
- Year
- 1959
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 1/4 × 38 in. (140.3 × 96.5 cm)
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Artist
- Emil Schumacher
Artist

Emil Schumacher
Printmaking
Emil Schumacher was a German abstract painter whose gestural, heavily textured works emerged from postwar expressionism. Working primarily in oil and mixed media, he built dense, layered surfaces that combined geometric and organic forms with an emphasis on material itself as subject. Active from the 1950s onward, Schumacher's approach bridged European abstraction and informal painting, placing him within the broader movement of Art Informel. His canvases prioritize the physicality of paint and substrate over representation or symbolic content.
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- Emil Schumacher
- Year
- 1959
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 55 1/4 × 38 in. (140.3 × 96.5 cm)
- Watts ID
- WW-1959-322469
Source
- Collection
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art
- Source
- met
- Reference
- View at source
- Status
- verified
