Paul Wunderlich was one of 29 artists commissioned to produce posters for the 1972 Munich Olympic Games.
In the run-up to the 1972 Games, the Organising Committee decided to commission a series of Artist Posters to "represent the intertwining of sports and art worldwide".

Paul Wunderlich was born in 1927 in Berlin and studied in Germany at Landeskunstchule in Hamburg during the late forties and early fifties. There, Wunderlich began making graphic work, including woodcuts, lithographs, aquatints, engravings, and drypoints.
He designed Surrealist paintings and erotic sculptures. He often created paintings which referenced mythological legends.