Aloïse Corbaz

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Aloïse Corbaz , also known as Aloyse or Aloïse (born June 28, 1886 in Lausanne , † April 5, 1964 in Gimel / Switzerland ), was one of the best-known artists of Art brut .

From 1918 until her death she lived in psychiatric hospitals, where she developed an extensive body of drawings and texts in colored chalk on wrapping paper. The psychiatrist Jacqueline Porret-Forel, who she had looked after at the La Rosière asylum in Gimel-sur-Morges since 1941, deciphered the motifs and content of the compositions and interpreted them as a “theater of the universe”. In 1948, works by Aloïse Corbaz by the French artist Jean Dubuffet were exhibited for the first time in an art context at the Compagnie de l'art brut in Paris ; since then she has been considered one of the most important representatives of the brut or outsider art . Extensive holdings of her work can be found in the Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne and in the Solothurn Art Museum .

literature

  • Jacqueline Porret-Forel: Aloïse ou le théatre de l'univers. Geneva 1993.
  • Aloise Corbaz (1889-1964). In: Gerd Presler : L'Art brut. Art between genius and madness. Dumont. Cologne 1981, ISBN 3-7701-1307-1 , pp. 55-60.
  • Katja Behling, Anke Manigold: The painting women. Intrepid female artists around 1900. Elisabeth Sandmann, Munich 2009, p. 126f.

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personal data
SURNAME Corbaz, Aloïse
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alois; Aloyse
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Swiss artist
DATE OF BIRTH June 28, 1886
PLACE OF BIRTH Lausanne
DATE OF DEATH April 5, 1964
Place of death Gimel VD