 Otto Wols is primarily known as Wolfgang (Alfred Otto) Wols
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Wolfgang Wols was born as Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze in Paris in 1913 and is today considered one of the more important modern artists. He moved to Dresden with his family in 1919, where he discovered his lively interest in painting in 1927. He was impressed above all by Paul Klee, Otto Dix and George Grosz.
The artist began an apprenticeship as a photographer in 1930 and attended classes at the Reiman-Schule, the Berlin school of applied arts. Moholy-Nagy advised Wols, who had a (showing 500 of 2660 characters). |
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