Paul Wunderlich (10 March 1927 in Eberswalde - 6 June 2010 in Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols)[1] was a German painter, draftsman, sculptor and graphic artist. He designed surrealism paintings and erotic sculptures. He often creates paintings referred to mythological legends.[2]
Wunderlich Gertrude was the second child of Mr and Mrs Horst and Wunderlich (née Arendt) was born. After a time as Flakhelfer and prisoners of war, he moved to his mother in Eutin, graduated from the Johann Heinrich Voss Gymnasium high school and then visited the Palace School of Art in the Orangery of Eutin castle . In 1947 he became a student at the Art School in Hamburg, where he was in the class Free Graphics at William Tietze enrolled. His classmates have included Horst Janssen and Reinhard Drenkhahn . After a hiatus, he began studying again in 1950, he in 1951 Willem Grimm graduated. He then worked as a lecturer at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg for the techniques of lithography and etching . Also in 1951 he printed for Emil Nolde ("The King and his men", etching) and 1952 Oskar Kokoschka, the graphics suite "Ann Eliza Reed" with eleven lithographs. With the earnings he spent three months in Ibiza. In 1955 he received a scholarship from the Cultural Committee of German Industry .
After an early, essentially realistic creative period from around 1959, he developed his characteristic style. His early works show dismembered body, disproportionated before an empty background. In the sixties, especially Wunderlich will bring a fresh breeze from various art movements, especially in this case elements from Art Deco and Art Nouveau, in his work on and process it according to his style.
In 1960 there came the seizure of the lithography-cycle "qui s'explique" by the Hamburg prosecutor for indecent depictions. The return is 1985 without comment by the prosecution. Wunderlich received the 1961 Prize of the Youth for graphics, with the prize money, he moved his sphere of action after Paris . In 1962, he worked in the workshop Deskjoberts in Paris, was the first time by selling lithographs of his life to him.
In 1963 he went back to Hamburg and was (until 1968) - in place of George Gresko - Professor at the College of Fine Arts in Hamburg and began in 1969 under the influence of Salvador Dalí with the creation of sculptures and statues made of bronze .
1970 artists continued the work in detail with the Dürer apart and there was a series in which he alienated surrealistic motives Dürer. The majority of his work include lithographs - since 1968 but also sculpture created Wunderlich as three-dimensional images of his painted and drawn objects and figures.
On Eberswalder marketplace is the new circuit house, the name of Paul-Wunderlich-Haus with and in June 2007 by the District Administration Barnim was obtained. In this district the house is a permanent exhibition of contemporary works of Paul Wunderlich. Thus, Eberswalde, the cultural commitment to the city Wunderlich appreciated. Opening on 1 July 2007 there was a big party in which in addition to the duo POND also Tangerine Dream gave a concert devoted to Paul Wunderlich.
Paul Wunderlich married photographer Karin Székessy in 1971 and the couple have some art projects together. Fritz J. Raddatz, this collaboration in the book correspondences documented and commented.[3]
He lived and worked in Hamburg and Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols (Provence), where he died after a short illness.