Word: wunderlich
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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...
Calculating Man. At 43, Wunderlich acts more like a successful stockbroker than a bizarre artist. He wheels around Hamburg in an expensive British car, wears imported shirts and shoes, often paints wearing a necktie. He likes money and does not hesitate to say so. He declares with a playful glint in his eye: "I am accused of being a calculating man, and I am. I know that there are very few graphic artists in the world who are as good...
...gift in graphics was quickly recognized, and he was invited to stay on and teach. In 1960, he became something of a cause célèbre when Hamburg police found his "qui s'explique" lithographs of lovemaking couples too explicit and closed the show. Undaunted, Wunderlich set off for Paris to work with the master lithographer Jacques Desjobert...
Otto Klemperer's version, with the Philharmonia and New Philharmonia orchestras (Angel; 2 LPs), has superb soloists, Mezzo-Soprano Christa Ludwig and Tenor Fritz Wunderlich, whose promise was cut short by his accidental death last summer at 35. The orchestra sounds wonderfully clear and portentous, as though this were the last music to be played on the day of doom. Although Klemperer's playing time is actually shorter than Bernstein's, Angel chose to record the piece on three LP sides, filling the fourth with five Mahler songs...