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PAUL WUNDERLICH

Paul Wunderlich was born in Germany in 1927. He died in France in 2010. Wunderlich’s prolific works in painting, drawing, lithography and sculpture are linked to the second generation of Fantastic Realists, sometimes called Magical Realists, who were inspired by dream imagery.
After Picasso and Max Ernst no other artist has contributed as much to the sculpture of painters as Wunderlich. The thematic for his sculptures and objects is closely linked to his paintings, drawings and lithographs.
Wunderlich studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Art. He has been exhibited widely throughout the world. His work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, Museum of Modern Art, Philadelphia, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Getty Museum, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, Musées des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Museum Atheneum, Helsinki, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Kamakura Museum of Sculpture, amongst others.
Often borrowing from classical mythology, Wunderlich emphasized the human form within a context that blends together contemporary and historical references. With cool aloofness, he transports the viewer into a world of surreal eroticism, aesthetic symbolism and a dose of irony.

 

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Paul Wunderlich on his technique for Stone Lithography:
The technique I have used for my lithographs since 1988 is new in two important respects:
1.The result is obtained without proofing, that is, step by step while printing the edition.
2.The same stone is used for all the colors.
The first drawing in very thin ink is done on transfer paper, using a brush, to lay out the strongest and lightest areas of shade. After this sketch has been transferred to the stone, all the sheets for the proposed edition are printed in the first color. The original drawing on the stone is then partially removed and other parts are restored. After that follows the printing of the second color on all the sheets of the edition. The process of removing, restoring and printing is repeated until the final result is achieved.
The method entails a very high risk of failure, but it permits free and spontaneous expression, which has not been possible up to now in color graphics.
- Paul Wunderlich

BIOGRAPHY

Paul Wunderlich was born in Eberswalde, outside of Berlin on March 10, 1927. After secondary school, military service and a short stint as a prisoner of war, he studied at the Hamburg Academy of Fine Art from 1947 to 1951. Fresh out of art school, he was entrusted with managing the academy’s print workshop, where he made prints for Oskar Kokoschka and Emil Nolde, among others. After a three year stay in Paris he returned to Hamburg in 1963 as a professor of painting. He resigned from his professorship in 1968 to work as a freelance artist. Paul Wunderllich lived and worked together with his wife, photographer Karin Szekessy, in his home and studio high above the rooftops of Hamburg. They divided their time between that home and their second residence in the Provence of the South of France, where he died suddenly on June 6th 2010 surrounded by his family.

 

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