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Second volume of the biography on the Austrian-Mexican Surrealist Wolfgang Paalen (1905 Vienna - 1959 Taxco/Mexico) by Andreas Neufert. First English edition.

This publication is devided into three parts. The first volume is devoted to the artist's fascinating adolescence in Vienna, Rome and Berlin as well as the turbulent days in surrealist Paris until his exile in 1939. The second volume will focus on Paalen's life and work in wartime and post-war Mexico and North America, which became so seminal for American art. In the third volume, Neufert will present an updated version of his 1999 Catalogue R...

Wolfgang Paalen, the almost forgotten Viennese painter and surrealist, only quite recently won back his original place as one of the most influential artists of the mid 20th century. This biography, originally published in German 2015 with great success, inspired the extensive retrospective in the Belvedere, Vienna, 2019 and though set the ball rolling, because it meticulously and comprehensibly explicates for the reader how it came about that...

Es war ein Leben voller Spannungen und unerwarteter Wendungen, das den Sohn eines österreichisch-jüdischen Kaufmanns aus dem Wien Kaiser Franz Josephs über Sagan, Rom und das Berlin der abgründigen Zwanziger Jahre schließlich in das Paris der Surrealisten führte. 1938 gelang Wolfgang Paalen mit seinen Rauchbildern (Fumagen) und der Zusammenarbeit mit Marcel Duchamp bei der berühmten »Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme« in Paris der Durch...