Marie
Lieb, Installation
with torn strips of linen, designed on the floor of the psychiatric
hospital where she lived, Germany,
c. 1894 Collection
Prinzhorn, Heidelberg, Germany.
No
detailed information about Marie Lieb’s life is known. She was
hospitalized in the Heidelberg clinic in 1894 diagnosed with
“periodic mania”. Only two photographs survive as evidence of her
distinctive style.
