Installation with torn strips of linen

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. 

Bad Art is Good for Us All

Anonymous thrift store painting titled “Future Tennis Stars”

Text by Alison Gerber

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Witch's Head

August Natterer: Witch's head, c. 1915, Prinzhorn Collection

Weltachse mit Haase

August Natterer: Weltachse mit Haase, um 1911/1917, Sammlung Prinzhorn, Universitat Heidelberg.
World axis with hare, around 1911/17, Prinzhorn Collection, University of Heidelberg.

Cell floor decorated with torn strips of cloth

Marie Lieb, cell floor decorated with torn strips of cloth, 1894

We have no detailed information about Marie Lieb’s life. We only know that she was hospitalized in the Heidelberg clinic in 1894 diagnosed with “periodic mania”. Only two photographs survive as evidence of her distinctive style. Wilhelm Weygandt, the former assistant of Emil Kraepelin, published them in his book Atlas und Grundriss der Psychiatrie. The caption said: “...Patterns ripped out from bed sheets by a manic woman, spread on the floor of her room.” Marie Lieb grouped cyclic motifs of flowers, stars and circles (as well as writing) into orderly ornaments that resemble the magical patterns of medicine men. It is likely that she created these installations in order to delineate her personal space.

Source : www.artbrut.cz

Signs outside the Louisiana home of Royal Robertson

Signs outside the Louisiana home of Royal Robertson
Photo by John Drury, 1991

Statue of Liberty

Dorothy Iannone
1977