ERNST WILHELM KUNZ (1912-1985). LUSSARI, ORIGINAL ETCHING, 1962, TITLED, SIGNED AND DATED.

Original etching with abstract motif with the title “Lussari” by Ernst Wilhelm Kunz (1912-1985)
The picture is dated 1962 on the left, titled at the bottom and signed on the right.

Frame size (width x height) ca. 34.5 x 26.5 cm
Plate size (width x height) approx. 14.5 x 11 cm

Ernst Wilhelm Kunz (born 1912 in Henschhausen; d. 1985 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein) was a German painter and sculptor.
He lived in Saarbrücken from 1918. In the years between 1929 and 1931, he completed an apprenticeship as a painter. After a three-year apprenticeship as a decorative painter from 1931 to 1934, he attended the Stuttgart School of Arts and Crafts.
He then worked as a craftsman and freelance painter until 1938. This was followed by a visit to the Academy of Fine Arts in Munich from 1938 to 1939. Under Hermann Kaspar's teaching, Kunz met Otto Pankok, Friedrich Schneidler and Olaf Gulbransson, among others, who influenced him and his work.
In the period between 1939 and 1945, Kunz was a soldier in the Wehrmacht and was deployed in theaters of war in France, Africa and the Balkans. After the war, he settled in Odenwald.
Regular study visits to France followed from 1948 and from 1959 he moved back to Ludwigshafen on the Rhine.
A few years later, he became the initiator and pioneer of the artistic application of the “full mold casting process” using the new plastic styrofoam. And in 1963 he became a founding member of the Rhine-Neckar Artists' Association.
He finally died in Ludwigshafen on the Rhine in 1985.

Among his honors: In 1973, Ernst W. Kunz received the Slevogt Medal from the State of Rhineland-Palatinate.
About him: Berthold Roland's biography Der Maler Ernst W. Kunz was published in 1964.