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Otto Wols

I do not see the difference in representing God with a circle or with a straight line.

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Alfred Wolfgang Schulze, later takes the pseudonyme Otto Wols, was born in Berlin in 1913. In 1931, he studies photography from Genja Jonas in Dresde. In 1932, Otto Wols studies Ethnologhy in Frankfurt and signs up with the Bauhaus in Berlin where he meets Gropius, Mies Van de Rohe and Moholy-Nagy who advises him about Léger and Ozenfant. He arrives in Paris in 1933 where he works as a . . .

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Original drypoints de Wols Otto : Visages, précédé de Portraits officiels
Visages, précédé...
1948 Four original drypoints, conceived for the book "Visages, précédé de Portraits officiels" by Jean-Paul Sartre. Here printer's proofs without the... Ralf Busch n°46 to 49

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To read about the artist :
  •  L'Art informel », Jean Paulhan, Ed. Gallimard, 1962
  • « En personne… », Jean-Paul Sartre & autres, Ed. Robert Delpire, 1963
  • « Wols », cat. d'expo., Ed. Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hanovre, 1978
  • « Wols, sa vie . . . », E. Rathke, Goethe Institut, Paris, 1986
  • « Photographs, watercolours, etchings », Inst. Für Auslandsbeziehungen, 1988
  • « Wols », cat. d'exposition, Fondation Joan Miro, Barcelone, 1988
  • « Wols », cat. d'exposition, Galerie Karsten Grave, Paris, 1998
  • « Wols », J-J., Lévêque, Ed. Ides et Calendes, 2002
  • « Wols, le tachiste transfiguré », Marc Alyn, Ed. Bartillat, 2007
  • « Otto Wols (1913-1951», cat. Paris Drouot Richelieu, 2011
To read from the artist :
  • « Wols, aquarelle, aphorismen », Werner Haffmann Ed., Cologne, 1963
  • « Wols, Aphorismes », Hans-Joachim Petersen, Ed. Flammarion, 2010
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