Sarah Schumann

Reception and re-discovery

Much of her early work was considered lost. However many pieces were stored in the attic of her former husband, Hans Brockstedt.

Works in public collections

Germany

Stiftung Stadtmuseum Berlin, Berlin Berlinische Galerie, Berlin Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg New Berlin Art Association (nbk), Berlin

International

Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, US

Awards

1977/78: Scholarship for the German Academy, Villa Massimo, Rome 1981: Working grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 1986: Scholarship for the Bleckede artists' colony, Lower Saxony 1987: Working grant from the Senator for Cultural Affairs, Berlin 1990: Working grant from the Art Fund, Bonn

Publications (selected)

Book publications

Sarah Schumann. With contributions by Silvia Bovenschen. Frölich und Kaufmann, Berlin 1983. Moscow. Ore and Body. Dvorah-Verlag, Berlin 1995. Kathrin Mosler (Ed.): Sarah Schumann: Works 1958–2002. Nicolai, Berlin 2003. Christoph Keller (Ed.): Sarah Schumann. Shock Collages 1957–1964. Spector Books, Leipzig 2025.

Illustrations

Cover design for the collected works edition – Collected Works of Virginia Woolf published by S. Fischer Verlag Design of cover motifs for publications, including the complete works of Virginia Woolf published by S. Fischer Verlag, books by Silvia Bovenschen and Alexander Garcia Düttmann. Illustrations for an edition of Lewis Carroll's Alice in Wonderland, 1974 Covers and posters for magazines such as Freedom, Courage and Frauen im Film

Filmography

1978: Harun Farocki: A Picture of Sarah Schumann 2000: Renate Sami: Sarah Schumann paints a picture 2012: Michaela Melián: Silvia Bovenschen and Sarah Schumann 2015: Lone Thau: From Darkness to Light 2019: Bettina Böttinger: Sarah Schumann in conversation with Bettina Böttinger, produced by VAN HAM Art Estate