About the Artist
Paul Wunderlich
Paul Wunderlich (1927 – 2010) was a German painter, sculptor and graphic artist. He designed Surrealist paintings and erotic sculptures. He often created paintings which referenced mythological legends. After an early, essentially realistic creative period from around 1959, he developed his characteristic style. His early works show dismembered body, disproportioned in front of an empty background. In the 1960s he was influenced by art movements such as Art Deco and Art Nouveau. In 1960 cycle of lithographs "qui s'explique" was seized by the Hamburg prosecutor for indecent depictions. Wunderlich received the 1961 Prize of the Youth for graphics. With the prize money, he moved his sphere of action to Paris. In 1962, he worked in the workshop Deskjoberts in Paris. In 1963 he returned to Hamburg and as a successor of George Gresko was professor at the Hochschule until 1968. In 1969 he started the creation of bronze sculptures and statues, influenced by Salvador Dali. In 1976, he issued a limited edition of multicolored heliographs that illustrated James Joyce's Giacomo Joyce. Wunderlich had also destroyed some of his art after having spent some time on it. He had looked at it and decided he no longer like it. At another time his art had gotten him in trouble, officials came knocking on his door and ruined years worth of his work for being too strange. Wunderlich lived and worked in Hamburg and Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols (Provence).
