1913 - 1951
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. Read more on Wikipedia
Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Wols has received more than 146,453 page views. His biography is available in 17 different languages on Wikipedia. Wols is the 745th most popular painter (down from 615th in 2019), the 2,081st most popular biography from Germany (down from 1,680th in 2019) and the 69th most popular German Painter.
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Among painters, Wols ranks 745 out of 1,421. Before him are Zhang Zeduan, Jens Juel, Reza Abbasi, Maria Helena Vieira da Silva, Giovanni di Paolo, and Nuno Gonçalves. After him are Carlo Maratta, Philipp Veit, Nikolaos Gyzis, Adam Frans van der Meulen, Léon Cogniet, and Piero del Pollaiolo.
1085 - 1145
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 739
1745 - 1802
HPI: 55.34
Rank: 740
1565 - 1635
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 741
1908 - 1992
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 742
1403 - 1482
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 743
1500 - 1450
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 744
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 745
1625 - 1713
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 746
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 747
1842 - 1901
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 748
1632 - 1690
HPI: 55.28
Rank: 749
1794 - 1880
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 750
1443 - 1496
HPI: 55.27
Rank: 751
Among people born in 1913, Wols ranks 105. Before him are Princess Katherine of Greece and Denmark, 'Abd al-Ilah, Pinetop Perkins, Masatoshi Nakayama, Donald Maclean, and Alfred Bester. After him are Mærsk Mc-Kinney Møller, Maurice Wilkes, Hélio Gracie, Yasuo Suzuki, Philip Abelson, and Trevor Howard. Among people deceased in 1951, Wols ranks 58. Before him are Algernon Blackwood, Lincoln Ellsworth, Du Yuesheng, Mikhail Borodin, Adam Stefan Sapieha, and Volodymyr Vynnychenko. After him are Simon Kimbangu, Louis Jouvet, Ali Sami Yen, Tadeusz Borowski, Géza Maróczy, and Robert Grant Aitken.
1913 - 2007
HPI: 55.91
Rank: 99
1913 - 1958
HPI: 55.79
Rank: 100
1913 - 2011
HPI: 55.76
Rank: 101
1913 - 1987
HPI: 55.44
Rank: 102
1913 - 1983
HPI: 55.38
Rank: 103
1913 - 1987
HPI: 55.35
Rank: 104
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 105
1913 - 2012
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 106
1913 - 2010
HPI: 55.16
Rank: 107
1913 - 2009
HPI: 55.10
Rank: 108
1913 - 2000
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 109
1913 - 2004
HPI: 54.99
Rank: 110
1913 - 1988
HPI: 54.90
Rank: 111
1869 - 1951
HPI: 55.56
Rank: 52
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.55
Rank: 53
1888 - 1951
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 54
1884 - 1951
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 55
1867 - 1951
HPI: 55.36
Rank: 56
1880 - 1951
HPI: 55.33
Rank: 57
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 58
1887 - 1951
HPI: 55.18
Rank: 59
1887 - 1951
HPI: 55.15
Rank: 60
1886 - 1951
HPI: 55.12
Rank: 61
1922 - 1951
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 62
1870 - 1951
HPI: 54.72
Rank: 63
1864 - 1951
HPI: 54.28
Rank: 64
Among people born in Germany, Wols ranks 2,081 out of 6,142. Before him are Gerhard Schmidhuber (1894), Princess Magdalena Augusta of Anhalt-Zerbst (1679), C. W. Ceram (1915), Uli Jon Roth (1954), Rudolf I, Duke of Saxe-Wittenberg (1284), and Gustav Schwab (1792). After him are Wilhelm Röpke (1899), Bertha of Sulzbach (1110), Clemens Winkler (1838), Johann Christoph Denner (1655), Philipp Veit (1793), and Konrad von Thüringen (1206).
1894 - 1945
HPI: 55.32
Rank: 2,075
1679 - 1740
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,076
1915 - 1972
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,077
1954 - Present
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,078
1284 - 1356
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,079
1792 - 1850
HPI: 55.31
Rank: 2,080
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,081
1899 - 1966
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,082
1110 - 1159
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,083
1838 - 1904
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,084
1655 - 1707
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 2,085
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,086
1206 - 1240
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 2,087
Among painters born in Germany, Wols ranks 69. Before him are Karl von Piloty (1826), Jacob Philipp Hackert (1737), Ludolf Bakhuizen (1630), Hans Richter (1888), Charlotte Salomon (1917), and Govert Flinck (1615). After him are Philipp Veit (1793), Franz von Lenbach (1836), Heinrich Aldegrever (1502), Franz Anton Maulbertsch (1724), Walter Sickert (1860), and Sebald Beham (1500).
1826 - 1886
HPI: 56.04
Rank: 63
1737 - 1807
HPI: 55.97
Rank: 64
1630 - 1708
HPI: 55.88
Rank: 65
1888 - 1976
HPI: 55.50
Rank: 66
1917 - 1943
HPI: 55.49
Rank: 67
1615 - 1660
HPI: 55.37
Rank: 68
1913 - 1951
HPI: 55.30
Rank: 69
1793 - 1877
HPI: 55.29
Rank: 70
1836 - 1904
HPI: 55.07
Rank: 71
1502 - 1555
HPI: 55.02
Rank: 72
1724 - 1796
HPI: 54.87
Rank: 73
1860 - 1942
HPI: 54.71
Rank: 74
1500 - 1550
HPI: 54.19
Rank: 75