With his both filigree and anarchic artworks, Wols (that is Wolfgang Schulze) occupies one of the front ranks among the representatives of Tachism. Wols attained his unmistakable style as of the 1940s, a style that was geared at the surrealist automatisms in its free and impulsive way of painting. Like hardly any other artist, Wols was able to make his paintings eloquent documents of subjective sensation. Thus his art is also a mirror of his unresting life. His world of agitated images, which is relinquished on the canvas in gestic, almost calligraphic expressions, is completed by a striking oeuvre of drawings, graphic works and photographs.
The work of Wols only found the recognition it deserved a few years before his early death in Paris in 1951. Nowadays his art is represented in the world's most renowned collections.