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Q553952
Sign in to saveWols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstraction, one of the most influential artists of the Tachisme movement. He is the author of a book on art theory entitled Aphorismes de Wols.
Person
- Born
- 1913-05-27
- Died
- 1951-09-01
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Key facts
- Artist.name
- Wols
- Artist.image
- Wols, Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, 1940, self-portraits.jpg
- Artist.caption
- Wols, 1940, self-portraits
- Artist.birth_place
- Berlin, German Empire
- Artist.death_place
- Paris, France
- Artist.known_for
- Painting, photography, installation
- Artist.movement
- Tachisme, lyrical abstraction
- Artist.notable_works
- It's All Over The City (1947), Aile de papillon (1947), Composition jaune (1947), Auberginenfarbene Komposition (1947), La Turquoise (1949)
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Key dates
- Born
- 27 May 1913
- Died
- 1 September 1951
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Wolfgang
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Germany
- Place of birth
- Berlin
- Place of death
- 7th arrondissement of Paris
- Occupation
- artist
- Educated at
- Bauhaus
- Languages spoken
- German
- Participant in
- Documenta III
Works in European collections
7 objects attributed to Q553952, held across European museums, libraries & archives · via Europeana
Article
8 sectionsContents
- Biography
- Artistic style
- Influences
- '''Drawings'''
- Writings
- Examples of paintings
- References
- External links
Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 19131 September 1951), a German painter and photographer predominantly active in France. Though broadly unrecognized in his lifetime, he is considered a pioneer of lyrical abstraction, one of the most influential artists of the Tachisme movement. He is the author of a book on art theory entitled Aphorismes de Wols.
==Biography== Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze was born in Berlin in 1913 into a wealthy family; his father was a high-ranking civil servant and patron of the arts who maintained friendships with many prominent artists of the period, including Otto Dix. In 1919, the family moved to Dresden, where subsequently he found his love for art in 1927. In 1924, Schulze was given a still camera, an event that, along with the death of his father in 1929, became one of the defining moments of his life. In 1930 he began to pursue an apprenticeship with his camera at the Reiman-Schule, the Berlin school of applied art. He was a multifaceted man who was capable of teaching German, painting, and capturing photographs of portrait landscape.