Paul Wunderlich Overview

Paul Wunderlich was born in Eberwalde on March 1927 and died in St.Pierre de Vassols-Provance in France. Wunderlich attended the class "Free Graphics" under Willi Titze at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg from 1947-1951. Among his fellow students were Horst Janssen and... [more]

Paul Wunderlich was born in Eberwalde on March 1927 and died in St.Pierre de Vassols-Provance in France.

Wunderlich attended the class "Free Graphics" under Willi Titze at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg from 1947-1951. Among his fellow students were Horst Janssen and Reinhard Drenkhahn.After finishing his studies, he was appointed to work as a teacher for grahic techniques between 1951 and 1960. After printing Emil Nolde´s etching2Der Koenig und seine Mannen"in 1951, he printed eleven lithographs by Oskar Kokoschka for his narrative"Ann Eliza Reed" one year later. By 1957 Wunderlich painted tachist paintings, which he later all but one destroyed. Shortly afterwards the first figurative paintings came into existence, the main work of his struggle with the figure was the painting"Sebastian, which was finished by the artist in 1959. From 1960-1963 he lived and work in Paris, where he perfected the lithograph technique at the printer Desjobert´s workshop. He returned to Hamburg in 1963following a call as a professor at the Hochschule der Bildenden Kuenste . The second half of the 1960s was characterised byexperiments with various techniques. Wunderlich was inspired by photographic models, painted paintings with airbrush and moulding tools, began to work on sculptures and perfected his use of gouache technique, which gained in importance in his production technique. At the same time he worked for printing houses abroad. In 1968 the artist resigned from his post at the Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste in Hamburg .During the 1970s Wunderlich dealt eith Duerer, Ingres and Manet, the series of "Duerer Paraphrases" came into existence, in which he alienated Duerer´s motifs surrealistically. In the 1980s Wunderlich´s work concentrated on sculpture.In 1994/95 several Jajpanese museums showed a retrospective. In Eberswald where he was born opend the Paul Wunderlich Haus, a museum for his work.Paul Wunderlich had lived and worked in Hamburg and France and is regarded as the most important representative of "Magic Realism".

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