Wölfli, Adolf, 1864-1930

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Name (Latin)
Wölfli, Adolf, 1864-1930
Other forms of name
Woelfli, Adolf, 1864-1930
Wölfli, Adolph, 1864-1930
Wolfli, Adolf, 1864-
Wolfli, Adolf, b. 1864 nna
Woelfli, Adolf, b. 1864
Date of birth
1864-02-29
Date of death
1930-11-06
Place of birth
Switzerland
Associated country
Switzerland
Field of activity
Outsider art
Occupation
Artists
Painters
Gender
male
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 27196361
Wikidata: Q364638
Library of congress: n 50013732
OCoLC: oca00049210
Sources of Information
  • Radiokammerkoret (Denmark). Masters of 20th century a cappella [SR] p1991:container (Adolph Wölfli) insert (Swiss writer and artist, Adolph Wölfli (1864-1930))
  • Wikipedia, October 16, 2017(Adolf Wölfli; outsider artist; born and died in Bern, Switzerland)
  • Morgenthaler, W.Ein geisteskranker als kunstler ... 1921.
  • Spoerri, E. Adolf Wolfli (1864-1930), 1984:p. 13 (b. Feb. 29, 1864 in Bowil, Emmental (Kanton Bern); patient in the Irrenanstalt Waldau from 1895 to 1930; d. Nov. 6, 1930)
  • Riley, T. Atlantis Nath [SR] p2002:container (Adolf Woelfli) ( (Record enhanced with data from: The IMAGINE Thesaurus - The Israel Museum Jerusalem Thesaurus - Artist names authority file) )
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Wikipedia description:

Adolf Wölfli (February 29, 1864 – November 6, 1930) was a Swiss visual artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent most of his life confined to the Waldau psychiatric clinic in Bern, where his involvement with art began. He is the creator of a large-scale and extremely complex work that is difficult to categorize. Meticulously numbered, dated and organized in handmade books, his paintings and drawings are accompanied by images, texts, numerical calculations, musical notation and geometric symbols, constituting a multidimensional artistic work consisting of approximately 25,000 pages. His painting is distinguished for its original and highly idiosyncratic use of color, while his compositions are distinguished for their detailed structure and organization. His work is largely autobiographical and deals with a personal mythology, centered on the fictional creation of his alter ego, Saint Adolf.

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