# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/wols
# Generated: 2026-08-12T19:03:44.603Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/wols"
name: "Wols"
slug: "wols"
description: "Wols was the pseudonym of Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, 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. He is the author of a book on art theory entitled Aphorismes de Wols."
tagline: "German painter and photographer (1913-1951)"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Wols_selfportrait_photo_circa_1937.png?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Germany"
  isoCode: "DE"
category:
  name: "Artists"
  slug: "artists"
profileType:
  name: "Artist"
  slug: "artist"
birthDate: "1913-05-27"
deathDate: "1951-09-01"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             4.986366170023651
  historical:           16.66318
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  70
  trendDirection:       "RISING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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    type:  "WEBSITE"
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    title: "Вольс"
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    title: "Wols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D9%88%D9%88%D9%84%D8%B2"
    title: "وولز"
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    title: "Wols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wols"
    title: "Wols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Wols"
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    title: "Wols"
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    title: "Wols"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump