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Natterer was one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill. [5] His drawings are attempts to capture the "10,000 images" of his April 1st hallucination, and are always rendered in a clear, objective style, like that of a technical drawing.
When Prinzhorn published some of Bühler's drawings in 1922 in Artistry of the Mentally Ill, he gave Bühler the pseudonym "Franz Pohl". [1] In 1940, Bühler was killed during the first Nazi mass-murder programme, Aktion T4, targeting the mentally ill. [2] He was murdered in "a specially adapted home for disabled people at Grafeneck castle, in ...
It was the first attempt to analyze the drawings of the mentally ill not merely psychologically, but also aesthetically. In the book, Prinzhorn presents the works of ten " schizophrenic masters", now housed in Prinzhorn Collection at the University Hospital Heidelberg , with in-depth aesthetic analysis of each and also full-color reproductions ...
Louis William Wain (5 August 1860 – 4 July 1939) was an English artist best known for his drawings of anthropomorphised cats and kittens. Wain was born in Clerkenwell, London. In 1881 he sold his first drawing and the following year gave up his teaching position at the West London School of Art to become a full-time illustrator. He married in ...
Interest in the art of the mentally ill, along with that of children and the makers of "peasant art", developed from the end of the 19th century onward, both by psychiatrists such as Cesare Lombroso, Auguste Marie or Marcel Réjà, and by artists, such as members of "Der Blaue Reiter" group: Wassily Kandinsky, August Macke, Franz Marc, Alexej von Jawlensky, and others.
The creator behind them is Rupambika, who shared that she began to draw illustrations that promote mental wellness during the pandemic. Rupambika wrote: “I spent a lot of time in creative ...
The Myth of the Mentally Ill Creative blog entry about creativity and mental illness by a professor of psychology and creativity scientist Keith Sawyer; A journey into chaos: Creativity and the unconscious Archived 2019-08-15 at the Wayback Machine by Nancy C Andreasen, Mens Sana Monographs, 2011, 9(1), p 42–53.
Hans Prinzhorn, Artistry of the mentally ill: a contribution to the psychology and psychopathology of configuration, translated by Eric von Brockdorff from the second German edition, with an introduction by James L. Foy (Wien, New York: Springer-Verlag), 1995. ISBN 3-211-82639-4; Hans Prinzhorn, Expressions de la Folie. Paris: Gallimard, 1984.