Paul Wunderlich Biography
Paul Wunderlich (1927-2010) was a German artist, whose work focuses mainly on graphics, but also on sculpture. In 1947, Wunderlich enrolled in the graphics class under Willi Titze at Landeskunstschule in Hamburg, where he then taught graphic techniques between 1951 and 1960. In particular, he taught printmaking and lithography. In 1960, Wunderlich moved to Paris where he lived and worked until 1963, when he returned to Hamburg as a professor at the Hochschule der Bildenden Künste.
In the second half of the 1960s, Wunderlich concentrated on experimenting with various artistic techniques. In 1964, he participated in the contemporary art exhibition Documenta 3, in Kassel. Starting in the 1980s, Wunderlich began to take a greater interest in sculpture, creating works that have been exhibited in numerous exhibitions in Germany and Europe.
Paul Wunderlich is considered one of the most important representatives of Magical Realism, an artistic movement born in the 1920s in America and which spread to Europe, particularly in Germany and France, between the 1930s and 1940s. Wunderlich's artistic technique expresses myopia and dreams in a magical and fantastic way. His artistic production has been celebrated in several retrospectives, including that of 1999, at the Berlinische Galerie, where both his drawings and his sculptures were exhibited.
