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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)
Helldi = Veetia
Details
ADOLF WÖLFLI (1864-1930)
Helldi = Veetia
dated '1917' (lower right) and extensive inscriptions (on the reverse)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
12 x 10½ in. (31 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1917.
Helldi = Veetia
dated '1917' (lower right) and extensive inscriptions (on the reverse)
graphite and colored pencil on paper
12 x 10½ in. (31 x 25 cm.)
Drawn in 1917.
Provenance
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York