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Axel Wunsch (born October 20, 1941 in Kändler ) is a German painter and graphic artist .

Life

Axel Wunsch completed an apprenticeship as an industrial dyer from 1956 to 1958 and then worked as a yarn dyer until 1963. At the same time he attended the painting and drawing circle with Willy Wittig in Karl-Marx-Stadt . His artistic training took place in Leipzig from 1963 to 1968 at the Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst under Wolfgang Mattheuer . Since then he has been working as a freelancer in Karl-Marx-Stadt, now Chemnitz. Wish was a member of the Association of Visual Artists of the GDR since 1969 and is now also a member of other artistic associations, such as the Kunstverein Laterne Chemnitz, the Zwickauer Kunstverein and the Kunsthütte Chemnitz. Study trips took him 1973/1974 to Siberia, 1973 to 1975 to Hungary, 1975 to Irkutsk, 1977 Finland, 1979 FRG and Yugoslavia and 1983 to Mongolia, also to Bulgaria and Greece. From 1963 to 1990, Wunsch also worked as a teacher in the Karl-Marx-Städter Volkskunst drawing circle and has taught painting in the Zwickau remedial class since 2000. In 2004 he received the Ruth Leibniz Prize for Sculpture from the Neue Sächsische Galerie Chemnitz. Axel Wunsch works as a painter, draftsman, graphic artist and sculptor and works experimentally in a crossover of all mostly simple means available to him.

plant

  • 1971 Detail from the mural, Sleeping Beauty in a kindergarten
  • 1971 Polish girl. oil
  • 1971 construction worker. oil
  • 1973 girl's head. lithography
  • 1973 couple teasing each other. Lithographs;
  • 1973 Arab mother. oil
  • 1973 At the Bratsker Meer. pastel
  • 1973 road builder. oil
  • 1973 Ash men. oil
  • 1973 Little angler in Irkutsk. oil
  • 1975 snowdrops. Mixed technology
  • 1975 Siberian boy. Hard fiber, mixed media
  • 1976 The painter Willy Wittig. Mixed media
  • 1978 chamber music. Mixed media
  • 1980 dormant. oil
  • 1980 site near Eggesin. oil
  • 1982 break corner. oil
  • 1986 foundry worker. oil
  • 1989 Rügen landscape, watercolor

Honors

Exhibitions

Solo exhibitions

  • 1970, 1976, 1977, 1979, 1981 and 1984 Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1974 Plauen, Meerane
  • 1975 Leipzig
  • 1976, 1981 Freiberg
  • 1978 Zwickau
  • 1984 Wilkau-Haßlau
  • 1985 Frankfurt / Oder
  • 1986 Glauchau, Weimar
  • 1989 Chapel Neuensalz and Frankfurt / M.
  • 2006 New Saxon Gallery Chemnitz

Exhibition participation

  • 1972, 1977, 1982, 1984, 1987 art exhibition of the GDR
  • 1974 Young artists of the GDR. Berlin
  • 1974 graphic in the GDR. Berlin
  • 1974 art for us. Erfurt
  • 1975 bound in friendship. Berlin
  • 1976 Youth and Youth Objects. Karl Marx City
  • 1976 Newly Karl-Marx-Stadt. Berlin
  • 1977, 1983 art and sport. Leipzig
  • 1979 Youth in Art , Berlin
  • 1979 companions - contemporaries. Berlin
  • 1980 gouaches and tempera leaves. Leipzig
  • 1981 25 years of the NVA
  • 1982 portrait + group. Exhibition of the painters and graphic artists section of the VBK / GDR, Karl-Marx-Stadt
  • 1983 Karl Marx - artist confessions. Berlin, Magdeburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt and Leipzig
  • 1984 Karl-Marx-Stadt retrospective
  • 1985 Music in the visual arts of the GDR. Berlin
  • 1985 On common paths. Berlin
  • 1986 GDR miniatures. Fürstenwalde
  • 1986 soldiers of the people. cottbus
  • 1989 builders. Berlin
  • also Belgium, FRG, Bulgaria, CSSR, France, Holland, Italy, Nigeria, Norway, Austria, Poland, Portugal, Sweden, USSR

literature

  • Dietmar Eisold (Ed.): Lexicon artists in the GDR . New Life, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-355-01761-9 , pp. 1056 f .
  • Mathias Lindner, Neue Sächsische Galerie (ed.): Axel Wunsch, painting and graphics 1956-2006 (with catalog raisonné) . Neue Chemnitzer Kunsthütte, Chemnitz 2006, ISBN 978-3-937176-12-3 .
  • Ullrich Kuhirt (Hrsg.): Art of the GDR . tape 1960-1980 . Verlag Seemann, Leipzig 1983, DNB  840469845 .
  • Lothar Lang: Painting and graphics in East Germany . Verlag Faber & Faber, Leipzig 2002, ISBN 3-932545-97-4 .
  • Council of the District of Karl-Marx-Stadt, Dept. of Culture; District art center (ed.): Retrospective 1945 - 1984 . Fine arts in the Karl-Marx-Stadt district, exhibition on the occasion of the 35th anniversary of the GDR from September 28, 1984 to February 14, 1985. Druckhaus, Karl-Marx-Stadt 1984, DNB  20982235X .
  • Ministry of Culture of the GDR (ed.): Karl Marx - artist confessions . Art exhibition on the occasion of the Karl Marx Year 1983; Berlin - capital of the GDR, Magdeburg, Karl-Marx-Stadt, Leipzig; Painting, graphics, plastic, poster, photo. Center for Art Exhibitions of the GDR, Berlin 1983, DNB  551438525 .
  • Art award of the DTSB of the GDR in silver for Axel Wunsch . In: look . No. 27 , July 6, 1977, ZDB -ID 1139743-3 , p. 11 .

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personal data
SURNAME Wish, Axel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German painter and graphic artist
DATE OF BIRTH October 20, 1941
PLACE OF BIRTH Kellers (Limbach-Oberfrohna)