Figure (in-text plate, folio 16) from Poésie de mots inconnus

Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze)WW-1949-M025618

1949·Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut·plate (partial): 6 5/16 x 4 7/16" (16.1 x 11.3cm); page: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm)

Catalogue

Year: 1949
Medium: Drypoint from an illustrated book with seven woodcuts, seven etchings (two with aquatint, one with engraving), six lithographs, three drypoints, two engravings, one aquatint, and one linoleum cut
Dimensions: plate (partial): 6 5/16 x 4 7/16" (16.1 x 11.3cm); page: 12 5/8 × 9 13/16" (32 × 25 cm)
Collection: Museum of Modern Art
Artist: Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze)

Artist

Wols (A. O. Wolfgang Schulze)

Painting

Wols, born Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze in Berlin, was a German painter and printmaker whose abstract works emerged from wartime displacement and existential uncertainty. Working primarily in oils and watercolor, he developed a gestural, densely layered approach that anticipated Art Informel, building compositions from delicate linear gestures and organic forms that suggest microscopic or cellular structures. Based in Paris after 1945, his brief but influential career spanned only six years before his death. His work bridges Surrealism and pure abstraction, rejecting geometric systems in favor of spontaneous mark-making and material experimentation.

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Plate (page 94) from Feuilles éparses

1965 · Etching from an illustrated book with nine etchings (two with aquatint, one with aquatint and drypoint), two engravings, one aquatint, one drypoint, and one woodcut

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