Michał Sowiński- Akt, 1958
« Born in Germany in 1927, painter, sculptor and printmaker Paul Wunderlich studied at the Hamburg Academy and after a three year stay in Paris returned to be Professor of the Art Academy there. He now lives and works in Hamburg and for part of the year in France. The German painter studied at the Kunstschule in the orangery of the castle of Eutin. In 1947 he went to the Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Hamburg, and studied graphic art. He extended his training by another semester to work under Willem Gremm. In 1951 he was offered a teaching post at the school, which he held until 1961.
In 1963 he became Professor for the Graphic Arts and Painting. Between 1951 and 1952, under the instruction of Emil Nolde and Oskar Kokoschka, he produced prints after their originals. In 1957 he created a series of Tachist paintings, for example S111/57 but he destroyed most of them later.
Towards the end of the 1950s he produced his first figurative prints and paintings. In the beginning their subjects were events from more recent German history, for example the set of lithographs 20 July 1944 (1959; Berlin, Gal. Brusberg), which depicted the execution of the men who had conspired against Adolf Hitler. This subject-matter was increasingly replaced by an eroticism that is partly Surrealist, partly decorative. In 1960 the public prosecutor of Hamburg confiscated such a series of prints.
Paul Wunderlich is professor of graphic art and painting at the University of Fine Arts, Hamburg, is a painter, sculptor and lithographer who lives and works for part of the year in Hamburg and the rest in France.
Married in 1963 to the photojournalist and fine art photographer Karin Szekessy (b. 1939, Essen), he sometimes paints and makes prints from the nude photographs made by Szekessy. Wunderlich belongs to the second generation of Fantastic Realists, sometimes called Magical Realists. These artists have remained faithful to the tradition although the imagery has remained contemporary.
Karin Székessy Sans titre [Dans l’atelier de Paul Wunderlich]. 1969 her Site
Paul Wunderlich, the most prominent among them, has developed a style slightly cooler in temperament and more analytical. Often borrowing from classical mythology, he emphasizes the human form within a context that blends together contemporary and historical references. With cool aloofness, Wunderlich transports the viewer into a world of surreal eroticism and aesthetic symbolism. Again and again, Wunderlich spices his Fantastic Realism with a startling dose of irony.
After Picasso and Max Ernst no other artist has contributed as much to the sculpture of painters as Paul Wunderlich. The themes for his sculptures and objects are closely linked to his paintings, drawings and lithographs. Wunderlich sculptures and objects combine the simplicity of an idea with the refinement of the material, and imagination with perfection in shaping something into a perfect form. As an artist, Paul Wunderlich has remained faithful to his own artistic visions.
Over a period of several decades, Wunderlich’s complex and comprehensive body of work has led to numerous exhibitions in museums worldwide. In 1994-95, he had retrospectives in several Japanese museums (Tokyo, Osaka, Hokkaido, Gifu). Wunderlich has been successful in numerous international print competitions and has received many awards. In 1964, he was awarded the Japan Cultural Forum Award, Tokyo; in 1967, he received the Award Premio Marzotti, Italy; in 1970, he was awarded the Gold-Medal in Florence, Italy; in 1978, he received Gold-Medals at the Grafik-Biennale in Taiwan and in Bulgaria.
He lived and worked in Hamburg and Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols (Provence), where he died after a short illnes »Rogallery
Paul Wunderlich Aus meinem Skizzenbuch, 1962 Aquarellierte Original-Lithographie für La Lune en Rodage
Paul Wunderlich Hingegossen II, Lithographie 1968//an example of its job inspired by that of his wife Karin
*****The Song of Songs Which is Solomon’s Aquarius Press, France, publisher. ten color lithographs *****
Paul Wunderlich – From The Song of Songs Which is Solomon’s, 1970 plate I with poems
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Marcel Bovis (1904-1997) fût Diplômé de l’École des Arts Décoratifs de Nice en 1922. Il était un photographe autodidacte , passion qu’il a découverte lors de son service militaire. Il a acquis ses compétences par le biais de lectures , en échangeant avec d’autres photographes et par la pratique bien évidement. À partir de 1927, Bovis photographie Paris la nuit. Il aimait l’architecture et la plupart de ses clichés sont des prises de vues d’élément architecturaux, de vues de villes ( qui ont étaient légués aux archives du patrimoine architectural) . Il consacrait donc une partie de son temps à la photographie de rue.
De 1933 à 47 il collabore à Arts et Métiers Graphiques, et parvient donc a gagner sa vie comme photographe. Il a travaillé sur de nombreuses commandes privées et publiques pour des clients tels que Leica et Lancôme le Commissariat général au tourisme .
Il est le cofondateur en 1946 du très célèbre « groupe des XV », ( Marcel Bovis, Yvonne Chevallier, Jean Dieuzaide, Robert Doisneau ,André Garban, Édith Gérin,, René-Jacques (René Giton), Pierre Jahan, Henri Lacheroy (cofondateur), Lucien Lorelle, Daniel Masclet, Philippe Pottier, Willy Ronis, Jean Séeberger, René Servant, Louis-Victor Emmanuel Sougez, François Tuefferd), dont le but était de promouvoir la photographie en tant qu’art et d’attirer l’attention sur la sauvegarde du patrimoine photographique français.
Bovis est l’auteur ou co-auteur de plusieurs autres livres. Il aimait les foires et les cirques, et a publié un livre à leur sujet en 1948, appelé Fêtes foraines, La Photographie de paysage et d’architecture . chez Prisma édition,1948, Du Quartier latin au Jardin des Plantes .- Paris, Éditions Arts et métiers graphiques, 1948, l’Algérie et les théâtres, les musées et l’architecture de Paris.
Sur la fin de sa vie, Marcel Bovis a expérimenté le collage, et a utilisé ses clichés afin de composer de nouvelles œuvres en particulier son travail photographique sur le nu est beaucoup connu, pourtant de grand qualité [CF Ce Livre/ Marcel Bovis, Éditions La Manufacture, Paris, 1992 ] , en le mélangeant avec ses photos de rues, de fêtes foraines.
Marcel Bovis- photomontage Femme au parapluie, nu masculin académique, stand de tir, silhouette féminine 1990
Marcel Bovis- photomontageNu féminin dissimulé en partie par un tronc d’arbre, façade de maison 1970s
Marcel Bovis- photomontage Nu féminin, panneau de photographe extrait de la série sur les Fêtes foraines en arrière-plan. , 1990
Marcel Bovis- photomontageNu féminin, Deux messieurs en costumes de ville, un nu féminin sans tête ni bras, une vespasienne… 1975-80
Pierre Louÿs – Nu Probablement Marie de Reignier au vu de la chevelure et du corps, ( Maitresse et soeur de la femme de Louys avant et durant leur mariage) Paris, 1897 via pierrelouys.fr
voir aussi pierrelouys.fr et deblog-notes.com et sur wilki Vous y trouverez des photographies de sa collection personnelle….
Alain Fleischer a un parcours aussi inattendu que singulier. À la fois écrivain, photographe, cinéaste, plasticie, il est un artiste incontournable dans le monde de l’art et de la littérature que l’on ne peut que difficilement cataloguer. Cultivant les contrastes, il se détermine lui même comme amateur chez les professionnels et professionnel chez les amateurs.
Alain Fleischer – ‘Miroirs’ (De la serie : ‘Miroirs-Tiroirs’) 1981
Alain Fleischer – ‘Miroirs’ (De la serie : ‘Miroirs-Tiroirs’) 1981
Alain Fleischer – ‘Miroirs’ (De la serie : ‘Miroirs-Tiroirs’) 1981
Alain Fleischer- Miroirs-Tiroirs I, 1980
Alain Fleischer- Miroirs-Tiroirs II, 1980
Alain Fleischer – Lme du couteau, 1982
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