The Sunday Telegraph London, January 25th, 2004
Through the windows of Karl Weschke's studio is a fantastic view of Cape Cornwall and the Irish sea - squalls, rainbows and a wave- churning headland. It is a landscape to match his mythic story, the principal subject of his powerful paintings, imbued with Cornish light, soon to be shown at Tate St Ives.
He has had such a divided life - as a poor boy in Germany before the war, a soldier and a prisoner of war and struggling artist in England after it - that at 78 he looks back and sometimes wonders how much of it actually happened. It took the art historian Jeremy Lewison's biography to prove ...
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