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Quadriga. A group of four German abstract painters founded in Frankfurt in 1952: Karl Otto Götz (1914– ), Otto Greis (1913–2001), Heinz Kreutz (1923– ), and Bernard Schultze (1915– ). They were later joined by Emil Schumacher (1912–99). Their work was a German version of Art Informel. The group first exhibited at the Galerie Franck in Frankfurt in December 1952 with the title ‘Neo-Expressionists', but at the opening of the exhibition the writer René Hinds gave a speech in which he coined the name ‘Quadriga’ for the four artists. It referred to a Roman four-horsed chariot and was meant to suggest the energy of their work. Schultze and Schumacher went on to join the Zen 49 group of abstract painters.

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