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1920 Perchtoldsdorf - 2007 Gugging. Known for: Painting.
After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was... Read full biography
After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and... Read full biography
After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981. Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there. Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a... Read full biography
After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981. Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there. Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a comprehensive body of drawings in Indian ink pen, executed mainly in small formats. The artists from Gugging belong to the worldwide most considerable exponents of Art Brut. Jean Dubuffet, the representative of this art movement, has personally acknowledged this... Read full biography
After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981. Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there. Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a comprehensive body of drawings in Indian ink pen, executed mainly in small formats. The artists from Gugging belong to the worldwide most considerable exponents of Art Brut. Jean Dubuffet, the representative of this art movement, has personally acknowledged this group. Their works are represented at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne as well as in... Read full biography
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After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981. Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there. Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a comprehensive body of drawings in Indian ink pen, executed mainly in small formats.
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