Word: wunderlich
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Paul Wunderlich by any other name would be extraordinary, but the fact that in German wunderlich means strange, wondrous, bizarre is a stroke of poetic justice. More elegant than Beardsley, more graphic than Grünewald, more phantasmic than many of the Surrealists, his work is at once sensuous and intellectual, erotic and macabre, pungently realistic and wickedly funny...
...long been recognized as one of the greatest graphic artists Germany ever produced; yet his reputation in New York and Paris has been largely underground, as if knowing collectors and cognoscenti loathed sharing his limited output. In any case, Wunderlich's fame has now risen above ground and is spreading fast. Aquarius Press in New York has just published a suite of his lithographs based on Solomon's Song of Songs. Next week his first U.S. exhibition of paintings opens at Manhattan's Staempfli Gallery. In June he will be accorded a retrospective in the Print Biennale...