LOT 35 Paul Wunderlich (1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vass...
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Paul Wunderlich (1927 Eberswalde - 2010 Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols, Provence) (F) Female figure with swan, reverse glass painting, frame inner dimensions 50 cm x 32.5 cm, monogrammed, signed, dated 62Provenance: Private collection, HanoverPaul Wunderlich created several reverse glass paintings in Paris from 1961-1963 (cf. cat. rais. Jensen 88-90) Paul Wunderlich was born in Eberswalde on 10th March 1927. As a painter, sculptor, graphic artist, designer of object art and even furniture, he was one of the most productive artists of the 20th century. From 1947 to 1951, he studied "Freie Graphik" at the later Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg in Willi Tietze's class. There he met, among others, his fellow students Horst Janssen and Reinhard Drenkhahn. In 1950 he studied with Willem Grimm for one semester. He then taught etching and lithography at the university from 1951 to 1960. He received printing commissions from both Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka.From 1961 to 1963 Wunderlich lived and worked in Paris. During these years he tried his hand at reverse glass paintings. He then succeeded Georg Gresko as professor at the art academy in Hamburg. In the 1960s, Wunderlich experimented with different techniques and developed his unmistakable style, which combined Mannerist and Surrealist influences, but also elements of Jugendstil and Art Deco. He created surreal figures with elongated proportions, and often took famous motifs from classical art and mythology as models. Initially, he drew his themes from German history. Later he concentrated increasingly on erotic and sexual motifs. Under the influence of Salvador Dalí , he also began to produce bronzes.In a black room with a watery blue ground, an anthropomorphic, flesh coloured form with two legs stands beside the outline of a long necked swan like two figures from a nightmare laden with arcane symbolism. Wunderlich's reverse glass paintings, created in Paris in the early 1960s, belong to a series of unsettling Neo-Surrealist pictures with grotesque motifs centring around the motifs of Eros and death.
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