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Michael Hawkins – American actor; diagnosed with schizophrenia and bipolar disorder [ 42 ] Luke Helder – The Midwest Pipe Bomber [ 43 ] – schizoaffective disorder. David Helfgott – Australian concert pianist (schizoaffective disorder) [ 44 ] John Hinckley Jr. – American failed assassin of Ronald Reagan [ 45 ]
Louis Wain. 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.
Wesley Willis. Wesley Lawrence Willis (May 31, 1963 – August 21, 2003) was an American musician and visual artist. Diagnosed with schizophrenia in 1989, Willis began a career as an underground singer-songwriter in the outsider music tradition. Willis' songs are typically partially spoken in an MC style, and partially sung in a nasal and out ...
Famous People With Schizophrenia Zelda Fitzgerald. As the wife of The Great Gatsby writer F. Scott Fitzgerald and a talented writer and artist in her own right, Zelda Fitzgerald is best-known for ...
19 July 1991 (aged 41) Nationality. British. Education. Central School of Art and Design. Website. bryancharnley.info. Bryan Charnley (20 September 1949 – 19 July 1991) [1] was a British artist who had paranoid schizophrenia, [2][3] and explored its effects in his work. He committed suicide in July 1991.
Edvard Munch (/ mʊŋk / MUUNK, [ 1 ]Norwegian: [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmʊŋk] ⓘ; 12 December 1863 – 23 January 1944) was a Norwegian painter. His 1893 work The Scream has become one of Western art's most acclaimed images. His childhood was overshadowed by illness, bereavement and the dread of inheriting a mental condition that ran in the family.
Mary Edith Barnes (9 February 1923 – 29 June 2001) was an English artist and writer with schizophrenia and became a successful painter. She is particularly known for her documentation of her experience at R. D. Laing's experimental therapeutic community at Kingsley Hall, London.
Jean-Michel Basquiat (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ miʃɛl baskja]; December 22, 1960 – August 12, 1988) was an American artist who rose to success during the 1980s as part of the Neo-expressionism movement. Basquiat first achieved notoriety in the late 1970s as part of the graffiti duo SAMO, alongside Al Diaz, writing enigmatic epigrams all ...