Wanda Wulz

Wulz, Wanda (1903-84), Italian photographer, from a family of portrait photographers in Trieste; her grandfather Giuseppe had founded the Studio Fotografico Wulz in 1868. Taught by her father Carlo, she photographed Trieste's cultural notables. In 1931 she met Filippo Marinetti and subsequently joined the Futurist movement, participating in their exhibitions. Her experiments with photodynamism employed superimposition and rhythmic scansion to create studies of bodies in motion, multiple portraits, and Futurist still lifes. Wulz's self-portrait Io+gatto (I+cat; 1932) is one of the best-known Futurist photographic images. But by the late 1930s she was focusing again on commercial work.

— Andrea Lange

Bibliography

• Guagnini, E., and Zannier, I. (eds.), La Trieste dei Wulz: volti di una storia. Fotografie 1860-1980 (1989)