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Wols

1913 - 1951

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Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze (27 May 1913 – 1 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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Wols is the 817th most popular painter (up from 851st in 2019), the 2,331st most popular biography from Germany (up from 2,347th in 2019) and the 77th most popular German Painter.

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wols ranks 817 out of 2,023. Before him are Arthur Rackham, Eugène Grasset, Leonaert Bramer, Bramantino, Takashi Murakami, and Gerrit Berckheyde. After him are Robert Reid, Wu Daozi, James Gillray, Henri Gervex, Ford Madox Brown, and Tina Blau.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Wols ranks 116. Before him are Masatoshi Nakayama, Willi Hennig, José Sánchez del Río, Mary Kenneth Keller, Philip Abelson, and Tikhon Khrennikov. After him are Georgy Flyorov, Ken Carpenter, Mickey Cohen, Amrita Sher-Gil, Abraham Sutzkever, and Hélio Gracie. Among people deceased in 1951, Wols ranks 64. Before him are Yoshio Nishina, Osman Batur, Louis Jouvet, Ali Sami Yen, Géza Maróczy, and Henrietta Lacks. After him are Tadeusz Borowski, Vilhelm Bjerknes, Algernon Blackwood, Du Yuesheng, Jakow Trachtenberg, and Liaquat Ali Khan.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wols ranks 2,332 out of 7,253. Before him are Prince Franz of Bavaria (1875), Albert Forster (1902), Hanns Kerrl (1887), Konrad von Thüringen (1206), Ludwig Crüwell (1892), and Sigfrid Karg-Elert (1877). After him are Michael Lippert (1897), Heinrich Gustav Reichenbach (1823), Ludwig Klages (1872), F. C. S. Schiller (1864), Heinrich Daniel Ruhmkorff (1803), and Ferdinand Christian Baur (1792).

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Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wols ranks 77. Before him are Charlotte Salomon (1917), Albert Bierstadt (1830), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Franz von Lenbach (1836), Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld (1794), and Heinrich Hofmann (1824). After him are Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724), Wilhelm Lehmbruck (1881), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), Walter Sickert (1860), Felix Nussbaum (1904), and Louise Catherine Breslau (1856).

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