Chess set with 32 pieces

Paul Wunderlich (Eberswalde 1927 - Saint-Pierre-de-Vassols 2010)

Edition Volker Huber, Offenbach/Main, cast by Lunt, Birmingham. 1978-1983. Bronze pieces, with a brown or black patina and partially polished; chessboard made of maple and walnut, veneered. Figures: H. 8,5 cm (farmer) - 24 cm (king), chessboard: H. 8 x 52,5 x 52,5 cm. Numbered copies 55/1500, signed Wunderlich. A runner at the top slightly bent over. The chess pieces draw from the artist’s inexhaustible well of myths; the 'queen' is modeled after the Greek goddess Nike, the king is depicted as the Minotaur, and the winged runner is reminiscent of the winged sandals of Hermes, the messenger of the gods. - Original box, accompanying literature - Graphic artist, painter, draftsman and sculptor. W. studied in Hamburg from 1947, among his fellow students were Horst Janssen and Reinhard Drenkhahn. From 1951 he held a lectureship in graphics at the Hochschule für Bildende Künste in Hamburg. In 1963 he was accepting a professorship at the HfBK in Hamburg. From the end of the 1960s he also began to work sculpturally. Mus.: Schleswig (Schloss Gottorf), Bochum a. others. Lit.: Volker Huber (ed.): P. W. - Das malerische, graphische und plastische Werk.