He was born on 4 February in Vienna, to Leopold Paunzen and his wife Hermine, née Kuhn, who were Jewish.
For instance, depicting Beethoven's Eroica Symphony as nude horse-backed lancers, surrounded by clouds and flanked by a trumpeter who might be Death.
He also created a series based on Gustav Mahler's song cycle, "Das Lied von der Erde".
His interests extended to literature, including a series of etchings depicting Raskolnikov, from Dostoevsky's Crime and Punishment.
[2] In it, he describes Paunzen's cause of death as severe bronchial pneumonia, made worse by neglect on the part of the camp's medical workers.