WUNDERLICH, PAUL

Denoël, Paris 1972. 126 p.Sider. Hardback in dust jacket. Big format OK condition TEXT IN FRENCH. Richly illustrated in colour, 1927 Eberswalde - lebt und arbeitet in Hamburg und Frankreich. Paul Wunderlich was born in Eberswalde in the Mark Brandenburg on 10 March 1927. Wunderlich attended the class 'Free Graphics' under Willi Titze at the Landeskunstschule in Hamburg from 1947-1951. 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 worked in Paris, where he perfected his lithograph technique at the printer Desjobert's workshop. He returned to Hamburg in 1963 following a call as a professor at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste. The second half of the 1960s was characterised by experiments 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 the gouache technique, which gained in importance in his production techniques.