Noah Wunsch (born 1970 in Rendsburg) is a German painter, photographer, and designer.
Life
editThe artist Noah Wunsch studied design at the well-known, Hamburg based artist Ursula Unbehaun.[1] He attended the University for Music and Art in Vienna, Austria. As a photographer, he was taught by Christoph Rüdt von Collenberg and Wolfgang Klein. Later he studied acting, music and dancing at the Stella-Academy in Hamburg. Noah Wunsch is living and always travelling between Paris, Hamburg, New York City and California. The artist is known for his charity support.[2][3]
Paintings
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The artist focuses on very big and colourful paintings,[4] also altar paintings for churches. The Picasso-organizer Thierry de la Fontaine considered his work "to be full of energy and fruitfulness. From it comes a real light, both from within and from a spiritual point of view!".[5] Some of his paintings, that he created in Mexico, France, USA, Germany or Italy are up to 12 m long and considered to be of high value.[6] One of history the biggest paintings of almost 200 meters has been created by Noah Wunsch and attracted a huge number of visitors at the world heritage site Royal Saltworks at Arc-et-Senans in France.[7][8] His deep faith inspired the artist to create a bible for children with his images.[9] Worldwide, the painter has shown his work in many exhibitions, from Vienna, Hamburg, Toulouse, Madrid, Chicago, New York City to Mexico.[10]
Photography
editAs a photographer, Noah Wunsch created portraits of many celebrities, like David Copperfield, Richard von Weizsäcker. John Neumeier, Claudia Schiffer and Diana Ross. As a photographer. Noah Wunsch worked on the fashion shows in Paris for labels like Yves St. Laurent, Chanel and Karl Lagerfeld.[11] His pictures, published by well-known companies like Gruner & Jahr, Jahreszeiten-Verlag, Bauer Verlag and Mont Blanc, are characterized by clarity and sensibility for the small details.
Fashion
editSince 2006 Noah Wunsch is also successful as a fashion designer. His work is considered as glamorous and free of any fashion trend. So far he seems to create pieces only for a small, exclusive audience.[12]
References
edit- ^ Newspaper article about Noah Wunsch (German)
- ^ Children Foundation May 2010 Archived 1 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Charity Auction in Hamburg, Germany, brings 21000 EUR in January 2012
- ^ "Paintings by Noah Wunsch". Archived from the original on 17 July 2011. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ^ Article with quotation by Thierry de la Fontaine
- ^ Newspaper article about the painter Noah Wunsch Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Article about the 200m long painting
- ^ french report on the exhibition Arc en Ciel[permanent dead link]
- ^ Childrens bible by Noah Wunsch, interactiver Archived 11 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "List of exhibitions by Noah Wunsch". Archived from the original on 11 March 2012. Retrieved 29 June 2011.
- ^ Newspaper article „Die Welt 2007“, Photography of fashion weeks
- ^ Newspaper article about Noah Wunsch as a painter, fashion designer and musician