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Franz Kernbeis |
NAVRATIL (Leo). Gugging 1946-1986, Brandstätter, Vienna, 1997.
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| Franz Kernbeis is the oldest of a family of seven children. He goes to elementary school for eight years and then works at the family farm. His first psychological problems appear when he is eighteen. When he is first institutionalized in 1955, Kernbeis lies motionless for hours or walks in circles with his eyes closed. He never answers a question and turns away if anyone talks to him. As years go by, he becomes more communicative. He begins to draw at the age of forty-four, after twenty years at Gugging. He starts by drawing an outline; in some cases he "compartmentalizes" the area and uses the outline only; in other cases he blackens the whole sheet of paper. | ||
| Kernbeis' work looks like a cellular world. He has made as many large drawings - some more than thirty-six square feet - as very small ones. His figures are fragile and shy looking, and seem left there, somewhat out of balance. He also draws buildings, mostly churches. | ||
| SEE ALSO: Publications de la Collection de
l'Art Brut, fascicule 12, Gugging, Lausanne, 1983. NAVRATIL (Leo). Gugging 1946-1986, Brandstätter, Vienna, 1997. |
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