1. Wolo was an artist, caricaturist, muralist, puppeteer, and children's book author.
18 Facts About Wolo
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Wolo emigrated from Europe to the United States after World War I, and after six years doing odd jobs, pursued a career in art over the next sixty years.
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Wolo began exhibiting his art in Chicago, Los Angeles, and then in San Francisco, where he drew a daily caricature column, "I Saw You", for the San Francisco Chronicle.
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Wolo painted murals at hospital wards and at restaurants, wrote five children's books, and was a puppeteer for children's parties as well as on television station KPIX5.
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Wolo's father was a Lieutenant in the Alexander Grenadier Guards.
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When his parents divorced, his mother married a diplomat attached to the embassy at Berne, Switzerland, where Wolo lived until the age of 12.
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Wolo was always interested in finding out things he didn't already know.
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Wolo covered these weaknesses well, but had powerful emotions and opinions underneath he revealed in his letters to me, and to his mother and sisters.
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Wolo began his career as an artist in Chicago by sketching people in cabarets, then sold sketches to magazines and newspapers, before finally opening his own studio on Olvera Street in Los Angeles in 1927.
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In 1932 Wolo found work as a caricaturist-columnist at the San Francisco Chronicle.
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In November 1933, Wolo began to sketch for "I Saw You", his daily caricature column at the San Francisco Chronicle, in which Wolo observed and sketched a person on the streets of San Francisco, without the "victim's knowledge".
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Wolo created sketches on the site of events such as the Open Air Art Show in San Francisco's Union Square.
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In 1932, Wolo contributed to the Olvera Street mural, America Tropical.
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The characters were based on bedtime stories Wolo told his children, with an emphasis on fantasy.
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Wolo won the Westinghouse Coast Network's competition and went to Hollywood to appear on the Panorama Pacific.
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Together with George Latshaw, Michael O'Rourke, Paul Walton, Wolo puts on a puppet show which forms the basis of the plot.
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Wolo created puppets for the 1980 production of the musical Carnival at the Mountain Play in Marin County California.
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Wolo died at age 86 in Laguna Honda Hospital in San Francisco.