Photo Courtesy of the collectors and American Folk Art Museum. With his 45 handmade, illustrated books (totaling some 25,000 pages) and hundreds of individual draw ings, Wolfli long ago secured a special place in the canon of classic, European art brut.There, he and his work loom large, just as they do in the broader line-up of outsider
artbrut. Adolf Wölfli, (born February 29, 1864, Bowil, Switzerland—died November 6, 1930, Bern), Swiss artist, writer, and musician associated with the art-brut and outsider
Otroscomo Adolf Wölfli comenzaron a pintar en un centro psiquiátrico. Cultura. Otros, representantes de la corriente artística del «art brut o arte marginal» ,
Thework of Dr Morganthaler documented his patient Adolf Wolfli, a genius who produced countless thousands of works from a small cell in his Swiss asylum. Dr Hans Prinzhorn collected thousands of works by psychiatric patients and his book "Bildernerei der Geisteskranken" (Artistry of the Mentally Ill), published in 1922 became an influential
AntónioSaint Silvestre and Richard Treger possess one of the most extensive private collections of international Art Brut. and impressively diverse collection in Austria. It includes classic artists, such as Aloïse Corbaz, Henry Darger and Adolf Wölfli, as well as younger ones like Kostia Botkine, Misleidys Castillo Pedroso
AdolfWolfli, Untitled (Saint Adolph bitten in the leg by the snake), 1921, the Waldau Clinic, Bern, Switzerland, colored pencil and pencil on paper, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Switzerland
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