Wols, born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, created delicate drawings, photographs and small paintings that became crucial to postwar European abstraction. His dense webs of line and stain reject geometric order in favor of fragile, nervous structures.
Painting; drawing; photography
Major Works
- 1946–47It’s All Over
- 1946The City
- 1951The Blue Phantom
- 1947Untitled
- 1946Composition
- 1940sThe Shipwreck
- 1940sButterfly
- 1940sSmall It's All Over
- 1930s–40sWatercolors
- 1930sPhotographs of Paris
Interviews & Writing
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