As in 2022 the first wolf appeared again in the Vosges Mountains, after centuries, just 10 kilometers away from Waydelich's home in Hindisheim, the artist decided to render it homage, by creating this bronze sculpture.
Waydelich's extensive body of work includes paintings, sculptures and sculptures in ceramic or bronze, assemblages, works on paper, and public art actions and performances. The artistic techniques of his colorful, playful, witty and whimsical graphics range from drawing, watercolor, lithography, etching, monotype to overpaintings of found paper objects.
He is one of the most famous living artists in France. His works are in numerous public and private collections worldwide. Especially famous have become his watercolor collages, which show real-existing creatures (crocodile, cat, pig) ghostly alienated within landscapes, which the artist painted on ancient letters, some of which he acquired on trips (eg to Crete). His style, which often takes up perspectives, motifs and elements of prehistoric cave paintings or Greek mythology, approaches fantastic realism. Depictions of mythical creatures, but also icons of the Modern art, such as John Wayne, serve to illustrate a "mythology of the Modern art", which, from the artist's point of view, ultimately anticipates an "archaeology of the future". The central figure of this approach is the Strasbourg milliner Lydia Jacob, whose records he discovered by chance, and around whom his artistic œuvre revolves from this point on. He invented a curriculum vitae for a woman who becomes his imaginary muse and fictional co-author.
