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Petrus Wandrey BIOGRAPHY
1939 Dresden, Germany - 2012 Hamburg. Known for: Painting.
Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as... Read full biography
Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as newspapers and magazines. Inspired by Dalí and Dadaism, Wandrey’s work first showed surrealist... Read full biography
Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as newspapers and magazines. Inspired by Dalí and Dadaism, Wandrey’s work first showed surrealist influences. In the search of his own formal language, he eventually found what he was looking for in the world of the early computer games. In 1978, Wandrey coined the term of ‘digitalism’. The subsequent... Read full biography
Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as newspapers and magazines. Inspired by Dalí and Dadaism, Wandrey’s work first showed surrealist influences. In the search of his own formal language, he eventually found what he was looking for in the world of the early computer games. In 1978, Wandrey coined the term of ‘digitalism’. The subsequent years were followed by various groups of works, including sculptures, assemblages and images, that combine art and technology. Since the late 1970's, Wandrey participated in exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig... Read full biography
Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as newspapers and magazines. Inspired by Dalí and Dadaism, Wandrey’s work first showed surrealist influences. In the search of his own formal language, he eventually found what he was looking for in the world of the early computer games. In 1978, Wandrey coined the term of ‘digitalism’. The subsequent years were followed by various groups of works, including sculptures, assemblages and images, that combine art and technology. Since the late 1970's, Wandrey participated in exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1999, the Museum of Fine Arts in Leipzig held a first retrospective of the artist. In June 2014, a major retrospective with the title ‘Digitalis... Read full biography
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Petrus Wandrey studied at the University of Applied Sciences in Hamburg and then at the local Academy of Fine Arts. He worked in various media and created illustrations for record covers as well as newspapers and magazines.
Inspired by Dalí and Dadaism, Wandrey’s work first showed surrealist influences. In the search of his own formal language, he eventually found what he was looking for in the world of the early computer games.
In 1978, Wandrey coined the term of ‘digitalism’. The subsequent years were followed by various groups of works, including sculptures, assemblages and images, that combine art and technology.
Since the late 1970's, Wandrey participated in exhibitions at home and abroad. In 1...But wait, there's more...
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