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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. 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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  • 17

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Among PAINTERS

Among painters, Wols ranks 745 out of 1,421Before 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.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1913, Wols ranks 105Before 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 58Before 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.

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In Germany

Among people born in Germany, Wols ranks 2,081 out of 6,142Before 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).

Among PAINTERS In Germany

Among painters born in Germany, Wols ranks 69Before 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).