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German-born painter. His real name was Alfred Otto Wolfgang Schülze. He was born in Berlin and was active as an international painter in Paris, where he died. He initially studied photography, and was inspired by Moholy-Nagy to move to Paris in 1932. There he associated with the Surrealist group and began drawing. He worked as a photographer at the Paris World's Fair in 1937, and at the same time developed a wide range of interests, including painting, music, and literature. After being detained in France in 1940, he began to seriously pursue painting. He held a solo exhibition in Paris in 1947, and also attracted attention with his illustrations for works by Kafka and Sartre. His style is dreamy abstract painting with delicate linear trajectories, and he is one of the founders of tachisme (derived from the French word tache, meaning a stain or stain, and referring to works with a tendency towards abstract expressionism in the early 1950s) and is regarded as one of its representative painters.

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ドイツ生まれの画家。本名はシュルツェAlfred Otto Wolfgang Schülzeといい、ベルリンに生まれ、パリで国際的な画家として活躍し、同地で死去した。初め写真を学び、モホリ・ナギに刺激されて1932年パリに出た。ここでシュルレアリスムのグループと交わり、描画を始める。37年パリ万国博覧会のカメラマンを務め、同時に絵画、音楽、文学など多方面の関心をもつ。40年フランスに抑留されて以後、本格的に絵画に取り組む。47年パリで個展、またカフカやサルトルの挿絵を描いて注目された。作風は繊細な線の軌跡による夢幻的な抽象画で、タシスムtachisme（汚点、しみなどを意味するフランス語タッシュに由来し、1950年代初頭の抽象表現主義的傾向の作品をさす）の創始者の1人であり、その代表的画家として評価される。

［野村太郎］

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