Lot: 321

Bernd Schwarzer (1954)
'Europabild (Gold-Blau)', 1994-1996

Oil, acrylic, and watercolor on handmade paper, mounted on wood/cardboard. 79.5 x 59 cm. Signed, dated, and titled on the reverse: B(ernd) Schwarzer Europabild-Gold-Blau 1994-96 (white chalk). Framed and described as such.

Bernd Schwarzer is one of the leading figures in contemporary German painting, whose work since the 1980s has intensively explored questions of identity, history, and political symbolism. A central body of work within his oeuvre is the so-called 'Europabilder' (European paintings), in which Schwarzer reflects on the idea of Europe as a cultural and political space. In these works, the artist frequently draws on iconic motifs such as the European flag with its circle of stars, which he transforms through varying compositions, color harmonies, and layering of materials. Overlapping, intensification, and deliberate disruption create a dynamic pictorial structure that oscillates between harmony and fragility. Schwarzer's images of Europe are less to be understood as unambiguous statements than as open pictorial spaces that reveal the ambivalences of the European idea – between unity and diversity, utopia and reality.

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Reserve price: 4,000 €