Arthur PAUNZEN
1890–1940, Austria
Biography
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Arthur Paunzen studied art in Vienna, after which he moved to Paris to study at the Academie Julian. His most famous works at the time he began to exhibit were his symbolic etchings based upon masterworks of classical music, such as, "Phantasien uber Beethoven-Symphonien" (Fantasies upon Beethoven Symphonies) and Gustav Mahler’s, "Das Lied von der Erde" (Songs of the Earth). Paunzen fled Austria in 1938 to settle in England. In 1940 Arthur Paunzen along with all Austrians and Germans, was taken to the Central Internment Camp, Douglas, Isle of Man, where he died several months later of bronchial pneumonia.
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