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Widely considered one of the greatest Outsider artists, Adolph Wölfli created an imaginary aesthetic world while institutionalized at the Waldau asylum in Switzerland. Active between 1904-1930, he created a huge body of work, including oversized, illustrated narrative texts, an imaginary autobiography (nine volumes long) and an fanciful epic Geographic and Algebraic Books (seven volumes). Beginning in 1916, he also produced single-sheet, unbound drawings. His work is marked by a hallucinogenic amount of detail, text and figures that are generally locked in symmetrical compositions. The majority of his work is now housed at the Wölfli Foundation at the Berne Kunstmuseum.
PROPERTY FROM THE ROBERT M. GREENBERG COLLECTION
ADOLF WÖLFLI (1864-1930)
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Details
ADOLF WÖLFLI (1864-1930)
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wolfli II 1920' with further extensive inscription (on the reverse)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
13¼ x 10 in. (34 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1920.
Untitled
signed and dated 'Wolfli II 1920' with further extensive inscription (on the reverse)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
13¼ x 10 in. (34 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1920.
Provenance
Gérard A. Schreiner and John L. Notter Collection
Exhibited
New York, Rosa Esman Gallery, Outsiders, April-July 1988, p. 196, cat. no. 152 (illustrated).
Gérard A. Schreiner Gallery, Outsiders, April-July 1988, p. 196, cat. no. 152 (illustrated).
Gérard A. Schreiner Gallery, Outsiders, April-July 1988, p. 196, cat. no. 152 (illustrated).