Paalen Life and Work

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 Raisonné.

Andreas Neufert, born in 1961, studied art history, philosophy and Byzantine studies in Munich, Vienna and Paris. He received his PhD in Aesthetics and Art Mediation in 1997 and has since published regularly on modern and contemporary art. In 1993 and 1994 he organized the Paalen retrospective at the Museum Moderner Kunst in Vienna and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City (as co-curator). In 2019 he curated the exhibition Wolfgang Paalen - The Austrian Surrealist in Paris and Mexico at the Belvedere, Vienna. He lives in Berlin and Montesardo (Puglia)