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Legends of Outsider Art
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...