1979. Bronze, dark-brown patinated. Sign. 'Wunderlich', numbered copy '474/5000', dated and signed. H. 4 cm, l. 8 cm. - Provenance: Wolfgang Brudermüller Collection; since then by inheritance. - Graphic artist, painter, draftsman and sculptor. W. studied in Hamburg from 1947, among his fellow students were Horst Janssen and Reinhard Drenkhahn. From 1951 he held a lectureship in graphics at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. He subsequently worked as a printer for Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka. W. lived in Paris for a while before accepting a professorship at the HfBK in Hamburg in 1963. From the end of the 1960s he also began to work sculpturally. With elongated and surreal alienated figures, he often staged erotic themes. W. lived and worked for many years in Hamburg and southern France. Mus.: Schleswig (Schloss Gottorf), Bochum a. others. Lit.: Volker Huber (ed.): P. W. - Das malerische, graphische und plastische Werk.