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Raymond E. Waydelich

Raymond E. WAYDELICH(1938-    ) 

Raymond Waydelich was born in Strasbourg in 1938 as the son of the craftsman (Ebenist) Marcel Waydelich and his wife Frieda Schneider. At the age of fourteen he received his first training as a sculptor in his father's workshop, but a year later, on the recommendation of his teacher Louis Fritsch, he was allowed to attend the Académie des Arts decoratifs in Strasbourg. After four years he graduated with a diploma and was awarded the Grand Prize of the City of Strasbourg. He completed a second degree at the Arts Déco in Paris after two years, also with a diploma.Waydelich's extensive work includes paintings, sculptures and sculptures made of ceramic or bronze, assemblages, works on paper, as well as public art events and performances. The artistic techniques of his colorful, playful, funny-bizarre graphics range from drawing, watercolor, lithography, etching, monotype to overpainting found paper objects.