Wolfgang Paalen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Wolfgang Paalen

Austrian artist

Date of Birth: 22-Jul-1905

Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria

Date of Death: 24-Sep-1959

Profession: painter, sculptor, philosopher, art collector

Nationality: Austria

Zodiac Sign: Cancer

Wolfgang Robert Paalen (July 22, 1905 in Vienna, Austria – September 24, 1959 in Taxco, Mexico) was a German-Austrian-Mexican painter, sculptor and art philosopher.
A member of the Abstraction-Création group from 1934–35, he joined the influential Surrealist movement in 1935 and was one of its prominent exponents until 1942.
Whilst in exile in Mexico, he founded his own counter-surrealist art-magazine DYN, in which he summarized his critical attitude towards radical subjectivism and Freudo-Marxism in Surrealism with his philosophy of contingency.
He rejoined the group between 1951 and 1954, during his sojourn in Paris.