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Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze) 1913–1951
German painter, draughtsman, photographer and illustrator.
In 1932 Wols travelled to Frankfurt am Main to study anthropology. He then moved to Berlin and entered the Bauhaus, recently transferred from Dessau. After only a few weeks Moholy-Nagy advised him to move to Paris. He soon met many artists associated with the Surrealist movement. Wols spent the remainder of 1932 in Paris, producing his first paintings but also working as a photographer.
At the outbreak of World War II Wols was interned for 14 months. During this period he concentrated on ink drawings of the sort he had been producing since 1932.
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His paintings helped pioneer Art informel and Tachism. Influenced by the writings of the Chinese Daoist philosopher Laozi, Wols also wrote poems and aphorisms that expressed his aesthetic and philosophical ideas. |1|
