ADOLF WÖLFLI 1864 – 1930 A former farm labourer and handy-man, Adolf Wölfli was schizophrenic and spent much of his life in the Waldau Clinic, a Swiss mental institution outside Bern. In 1921, his psychiatrist,...
ROGER CARDINAL Roger Cardinal was a great visionary writer and art historian. Born in 1940 in Bromley, UK, he taught for 50 years at the University of Kent in Canterbury, latterly as...
JEAN DUBUFFET Jean Dubuffet was born in 1902 to a wine merchant family in Havre, France. After the First World War ended, Dubuffet moved to Paris to study painting but after six...
PRINZHORN The Prinzhorn Collection museum in Heidelberg, Germany, is dedicated to art created by people with mental disorders. The original collection is made up of around 6,000 works created by inmates...
JOE COLEMAN b. 1955 Joe Coleman was born in Norwalk, Connecticut. As a boy, he was labelled “emotionally disturbed,” owing to his pictures of bleeding saints. Known initially as a practical joker and performance...
JOSEPH YOAKUM c. 1890 – 1972 Originally from Missouri, Joseph Yoakum had Cherokee and African American roots and was a believer in Christian Science. The key to the work of this landscape artist is travel: he...
