Title: |
Der Augapfel ist so Breit wie der Nasenflugel beim Christus von Bremen (The Eye is as wide as the side of the nose of the Christ of Bremen) |
Artist: |
Wunderlich, Paul (Berlin, Born, 1927 - Resides, Hamburg) |
Date: |
1970 |
Medium: |
Original Lithograph |
Edition: |
Limited edition of seventy five impressions, numbered, '14/75' |
Note: |
Paul Wunderlich: A Leading German
painter, printmaker and sculptor, Paul Wunderlich studied art at the Landeskunstschule
in Hamburg (1947-1951), under Willi Titze and Willem Grimm. His first
one man exhibition of art took place in Lubeck, Germany, in 1949. Since
that time his paintings and lithographs have been the subject of numerous
solo exhibitions in such far ranging countries as Japan, the United States,
Finland, New Zealand, Italy and England. Paul Wunderlich's original lithographs
have won such awards as the Deutsche Kunstpreis de Jugend fur Grafik,
Mannheim (1960), the Gold Medal, Florence, (1970), the Gold Medal, Print
Biennale, Listowell, Ireland (1978), and the Prize for Art at the Graphic
Art Museum, Kamakura, Tokyo. |
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Paul Wunderlich began devoting a great deal
of his efforts to the art of lithography when he lived and worked in Paris
from 1960 to 1963. Upon his return to Germany in 1963 he accepted the
post of Professor at the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg. Today
the lithographs of Paul Wunderlich are found in many major, international
collections, including, the British Museum, London, the Museum of Modern
Art, New York, the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, the Hirshhorn Museum,
Washington, the Museum Boysmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, the Museum Atheneum,
Helsinki, Landesmuseum, Hannover, and Staatsgalerie fur Moderne Kunst,
Munich. Paul Wunderlich currently both lives and works in Hamburg and
in the South of France. |
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Paul Wunderlich's first lithographs and paintings
were composed in an abstract style. During the early 1960's, however,
he adopted the more surrealist style for which his art has become famous.
Sexuality and sensuality lie at the core of his often unsettling but always
challenging art. Through both distortion and dream-like imagery he has
created a symbolically potent world of his own. |
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"Der Augapfel ist so Breit wie der Nasenflugel beim Christus
von Bremen" is one of a set of lithographs Paul Wunderlich created to
commemorate the quincentenerary of Albrecht Durer. Each of these original
lithographs was published in a sole, signed edition of seventy five impressions.
"Der Augapfel ist so Breit wie der Nasenflugel beim Christus von Bremen" loosely translates
to (The Eye is as wide as the side of the nose of the Christ of Bremen). |
Provenance: |
"Der Augapfel ist so Breit wie der Nasenflugel
beim Christus von Bremen" was formerly in the collection of Roger Trlak and bearing
his inventory number, 'T-520', on the verso. Roger Trlak (1934-1975) established
the commercial art company of Martin-Trlak in Chicago. In 1972 he also
opened the RST Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona where he exhibited not only
his own large collection of mostly contemporary art but also held important
exhibitions of many modern artists. These Included such major American
and international printmakers as Joseph Hirsch, Luigi Lucioni and Paul
Wunderlich. Among Trlak's closest friends in the arts community were Raphael
Soyer, Ivan Albright and Hans Burkhardt. Their original prints and paintings
were constantly exhibited at the RST Gallery until it was closed in 1975
due to Trlak's untimely death. |
Raisonne: |
Carsten Riediger, Paul Wunderlich. Werkzeichnis
der Druckgraphic 1948 - 1982, Volker Huber, Leinen, 1983. Riediger
# 377, First and only state as published in the limited edition of seventy
five impressions. |
Size: |
29 5/8 X 22 1/2 (Sizes in inches are approximate,
height preceding width of plate-mark or image.) |
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UnMatted |
Condition: |
Printed upon "Arches" watermarked paper and
with full, deckled margins as published in Germany in 1970. Signed in
pencil by the artist and numbered '14/75' along the lower margin. A finely
printed impression and in excellent condition throughout. Der Augapfel
ist so Breit wie der Nasenflugel beim Christus von Bremen represents
a prime example of the famous lithographic art of Paul Wunderlich. |
Price: |
Sold - The price is no longer available. |
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