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3 unusual facts about WOLS


WOLS

WOLS was the flagship station for the NBA's Charlotte Bobcats from the team's debut in 2004 through the 2008-2009 season.

WOLS had broadcast the games of the WNBA's Charlotte Sting prior to the team's ceasing operations on January 2, 2007.

Wols

Randomness (initially inspired by the Surrealist psychic Automatism) plays an important role in his unstructured compositions.


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Cora Cohen

The relationships and affinities of her paintings with European Art informel (Wols, Jean Fautrier, Yves Klein) and the antecedent surrealist automatism of Andre Masson became more pronounced in Cohen’s work during the time she lived in Cologne in the nineties.

Flemish painting

Although James Ensor stood apart from his contemporaries, this innovator in 19th-century art significantly influenced such 20th-century artists as Paul Klee, Emil Nolde, George Grosz, Alfred Kubin, Wols, Felix Nussbaum, and other expressionist and surrealist painters of the 20th century.

Karl Otto Götz

In 1952 Götz was one of the four co-founders, with Otto Greis, Heinz Kreutz and Bernard Schultze, of the Frankfurt 'Quadriga', a group of artists painting in a Tachist style influenced by Wols and Automatism.

WAVO

On July 10, 2008 at 11:50 A.M., WAVO ended its simulcast of WHVN to begin playing music by artists such as Frank Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Ella Fitzgerald, Johnny Mathis, Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey who had once been heard on WNMX, also operated by the same company as WAVO.


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