Oil on masonite signed with the monogram “ES”. Provenance Swedish (Göteborg) private collection. The style of his work changed drastically in 1950 where he turned towards the expressive power of painting alone. Colour itself gradually became the decisive element of his works, influenced 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. It is around the middle of the 1950s that Emil Schumacher became internationally known and praised as an important artist of the Informel.