# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-paalen
# Generated: 2026-09-07T21:40:49.784Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wolfgang-paalen"
name: "Wolfgang Paalen"
slug: "wolfgang-paalen"
description: "Wolfgang Robert Paalen was an Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor, and art philosopher. A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934 to 1935, he joined the influential Surrealist movement in 1935 and was one of its prominent exponents until 1942. Whilst in exile in Mexico, he founded his own counter-surrealist art-magazine DYN, in which he summarized his critical attitude towards radical subjectivism and Freudo-Marxism in Surrealism with his philosophy of contingency. He rejoined the group between 1951 and 1954, during his sojourn in Paris."
tagline: "Austrian artist (1905-1959)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wolfgang_Paalen_in_Paris_1933.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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  isoCode: "AT"
category:
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  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1905-07-22"
deathDate: "1959-09-24"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             0.1993355481727575
  historical:           9.181933333333333
  currentAttention:     1.107419712070875
  sourceConfidence:     54.99999999999999
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
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  country:  null
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    title: "Паален, Вольфганг"
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    title: "Wolfgang Paalen"
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    title: "Wolfgang Paalen"
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    title: "ولفگانگ پالن"
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    title: "Wolfgang Paalen"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump