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Wolfgang Grasse Obituary
It was reported that Wolfgang Grasse died in Penguin Tasmania on or about 17 August 2008.
Born in 1930, he survived the horrors of the Second World War and then imprisonment in East Germany for a political crime.
ABC Stateline has an interview with Wolfgang Grasse where he talks about these things and thoughts on Fantastic Art.
"My grandfather painted realist paintings…He was particularly strict with me. He warned me from a young age of the brainwashing effects and influence of art teachers of the time." Wolfgang Grasse.
"My influences are Matthias Grunewald, Altdorfer, Peter Bruegel, Bosch, Crivelli, Shongauer, Hans Baldung Gruen, Fanius Gugel, Albrecht Durer, Mantegna, Hans Memling, and also the great book illustrator Professor Alfred Roloff.I like very much the artists of the Vienna School, but my art goes in different ways." Wolfgang Grasse.
"We should respect dreams as much as we respect reality and sometimes our dreams are more powerful than reality." Wolfgang Grasse.
May he rest in peace.