Bernard Schultze (May 31, 1915 in Schneidemühl, now Piła, Poland – April 14, 2005 in Cologne) was a German painter who co-founded the Quadriga group of artists. In 1955, he married another painter named Ursula Bluhm. His art collection produced before 1945 was destroyed during an air raid on Berlin in 1945. [1] Schultze conveyed his experiences of the effects of war using Surrealist and Dadaist ideas. He combined painted fragments of reality, such as incomplete parts of objects, figures and natural elements, which seem like snatches of the painter's memories. The colouring is dark, and the destruction of war is represented in a nightmarish way. In the surreal representation and collage-like arrangement of figure, object and motifs from nature, the central theme of Schultze's work is already prefigured: the dialectic process of coming into being and passing away, the decay and growth of the natural and the fantastic.[2]