Wolfgang is from Bayreuth, Germany and now lives in Summit, New Jersey, USA. He used to live for a considerable time in London, England, where he saw the theater production “The Pitman Painters” by Lee Hall. A scene in the play inspired him to paint: a mentor of a group of unemployed miners turned artists dismisses a work of one of his fellows as “I could have painted that!”, upon which the mentor replies “Yes, but he did it”. That sentence was the trigger for Wolfgang to start painting. Wolfgang taught himself how to paint. His works can be found in private residences in France, Spain, England, Germany and the USA.
Synesthesia is a neurological condition in which information meant to stimulate one of your senses stimulates several of your senses. In other words, it is a condition in which one type of stimulation evokes the sensation of another, as when the hearing of a sound produces the visualization of a color. Or, when the reading of a letter or word produces the visualization of a color. It is not a disease!
People who have synesthesia are called synesthetes. Not every synesthete associates certain sounds, tastes or letters with the same color. Each synesthete is unique. Synesthetes can often “see” music as colors when they hear it, and “taste” texture like “round” or “pointy” when they eat foods.
The word “synesthesia” come from ghe Greek words: “synth” (which means “together”) and “esthesia” (which means “perception”).
Wolfgang is not a synesthete. He displays letters as colors. In some of his works, “letters” or “colors” are shown in different sizes depending on how frequently each letter appears in the English language. For example, the letter “E” is shown as orange and appears larger, or bigger, than the letter “F”, which is shown as grey and appears less frequently and is therefore shown smaller.