Wols

Wols (Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, 1913, 1951) was a German-born artist and photographer who became a pioneering figure in Art Informel and Tachisme, developing a highly expressive, gestural painting style rooted in existential anguish and improvisation. Working primarily in France, he created densely layered canvases filled with biomorphic forms, scratched surfaces, and explosive bursts of color that anticipated Abstract Expressionism. Despite his tragically short life marked by poverty and alcoholism, his visionary work profoundly influenced postwar European abstraction.