Wols
A Life Shrouded in Mystery: The World of Wols Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schulze, known to the world as Wols, remains a captivating enigma within 20th-century art history. Born in Berlin in 1913 into an affluent family with strong artistic connections – his father was a …
A portrait built from Wols's own colours
Every 6 approved work contributes its dominant tone to a single flowing field. Sorted along the hue wheel, the strip reads as a smooth spectrum. Click any band to reveal its full four-colour palette.
Bands follow the hue wheel; visually identical tones are merged.
Every painting, placed on the hue wheel
Each dot is a work — its angle set by hue, its distance from the centre by saturation. Hover a dot to see the painting.
The signature, in numbers
Where the colour came from
Up to 24 paintings representing the most frequent palette tones — each shown with its dominant colours.