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Max |
NAVRATIL (Leo). Gugging 1946-1986, Brandstätter, Vienna, 1997.
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| Max (a pen name) experiences major difficulties at school as well as in learning any job. He is impulsive, suffers from an inferiority complex, and has to be institutionalized at the age of sixteen, then again at twenty-three for hallucinations. He is diagnosed as schizophrenic. At the age of thirty-eight, he is permanently hospitalized and considers himself dead, convinced that God, the Virgin Mary and the angels have sentenced him to being crucified. | ||
| He starts drawing recognizable figures, but little by little they become geometrical and schematic, black and ghost looking human shapes. He does not look at the paper when he draws. The strength of his gestures and the violence of his lines seem to deny the figures, as if they wanted to rip the page while holding it together. | ||
| 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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