Biography
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1927
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Born in Eberswalde, Mark Brandenburg
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1947-51
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Took Free Graphics at the Landeskunstschule, Hamburg
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1951-60
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Teacher of lithography and etching at Landeskunstschule
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1955
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Given a scholarship by the Cultural Committee of Germany
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1960
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Confiscation of a series of his erotic prints; moved to Paris to work in the Desjobert workshop
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1963
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Met his future wife, Karin Szekessy
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1963-68
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Worked as a professor at the Hochschule für bildende Künste
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1964
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Awarded the Japan Cultural Forum Award
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1967
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Awarded the Award Premio Marzotti
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1970
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Awarded the Gold Medal in Florence
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1978
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Awarded Gold Medals at the Grafik-Biennale in Taiwan and in Bulgaria
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1986
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Won the Kunstpreis des Landes Schleswig-Holstein
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1994-95
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Major retrospectives at several Japanese museums
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2010
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Died in Provence
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Selected solo exhibitions
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1963
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San Francisco
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1964
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Dokumenta, Kassel
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1967
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Galerie Berggruen, Paris
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Auckland City Gallery, New Zealand
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1968
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AAA, New York
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Redfern Gallery, London
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1969
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Pearls Gallery, Los Angeles
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1970
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Göteborg Museum, Sweden
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1971
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Galerie Kornfeld, Zürich
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1974
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Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel
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1977
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Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
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1980
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Seibu-Museum, Tokyo
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1987
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Schleswig-Holsteinisches Landesmuseum, Schleswig
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1994
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Mitaka City Gallery of Art, Tokyo
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Gifu Prefectural Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
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1997
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Ausstellung für Eberswalde, Museum in der Adler
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2004
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Buddenbrookhaus, Heinrich-und-Thomas Mann-Zentrum, Lübeck
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2007
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Schleswig-Holsteinische Landesmuseen, Schleswig
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'Paul-Wunderlich-Haus', Eberswalde (permanent exhibition of sculptures and graphic works)
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2008
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Stadthaus am Dom, Wetzlar
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2012
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Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
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Selected group exhibitions
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1955
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Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, 'Farbige Grafik’
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1957
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Hamburg, 'Kongress für die Freiheit der Kultur'
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1962
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Corcoran, Washington D.C., ‘Sixteen German Artists’
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1970
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Münchner Stadtmuseum, ‘München Malerei nach Fotografie’
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1976
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Palais du Congres, Straßburg, ‘Les Espaces Insolites’
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1984
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Graphik Biennale Taiwan / Graphik Biennale Ungarn
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1990
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Kunstmuseum, Bonn, ‘The Lost Shoe’
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1995
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Art Service, Kall-Scheven, ‘Horst Janssen, Paul Wunderlich, Christo’
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1999
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Galerie Roesinger, Köln, ‘Hommage á Geothe’
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2000
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Art Galerie Richter, Berlin/Artforum, Hannover, ‘Künstler der Galerie’
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2004
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Lehr - Auktionshaus und Galerie, Berlin, ‘Auktion 24’
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2008
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Kunstmuseum Bayreuth, ‘Antes, Janssen, Wunderlich und die Konstruktiven aus der Prof. Dr. Klaus Dettmann Kunststiftung'
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2012
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Galerie Stihl, Waiblingen, ‘TOTENTANZ - Bilder & Objekte aus der Sammlung Richard H. Mayer, Bamberg", Museum Junge Kunst, Frankfurt/O. / "DÜRER - Genie Marke Vorbild’
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2015
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Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, ‘Von Hockney bis Holbein. Die Sammlung Würth in Berlin’
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Selected collections
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Hamburger Kunsthalle
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Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
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Hirshhorn Museum, Washington
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Museum of Modern Art, New York
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Musées Royaux des Beaux Arts, Brüssel
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Tate
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