Barbara Suckfüll

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Barbara Suckfüll (* 1857 in Gemeinfeld , † after 1928) was a German farmer and draftsman ; she was "admitted to a psychiatric hospital in 1907 at the age of 50, dictated by voices that gave her orders to shout, curse, run, and also to write and draw."

Life

Barbara Suckfüll lived as a farmer in a small village in Lower Franconia . She had seven children, two of whom died. One day she heard voices, at first only looked restless, later became loud, began to scream; as it progresses, it becomes increasingly aggressive and dangerous. In 1907 she was admitted to the state insane asylum in Werneck . In 1928, after she had calmed down more and more, she was released to her home town. Nothing is known about the date of death; a doctor noted in 1934 that “she has now found peace with herself”.

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In the institution she began to draw and also to write; up to four pages per day. She had the peculiarity of putting a point after every word. She drew everyday things, e.g. B. Bread, plates & cups, cutlery. Fonts and drawings sometimes have the same theme. The few sheets that have been preserved are kept as Art brut in the Prinzhorn Collection.

“Barbara Suckfüll's works impress the viewer with their surprising aesthetic tension that arises from the touch and fusion of text and graphic communication. It is interesting that modern art dissolves the boundaries of the individual media and thus enables the interweaving of words, signs and lines to form a more complex aesthetic form as an expression of newly found and perceived content "

- Sabine Hohnholz, Prinzhorn Foundation

In 2001 the composer Caspar Johannes Walter created Krumme Dinger I-III, a work for trumpet and five voices, and his work refers to the texts of Emma Hauck and Barbara Suckfüll.

literature

  • Monika Ankele: Everyday life and appropriation in psychiatric hospitals around 1900: Self-testimonies from women from the Prinzhorn collection. Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 2009, ISBN 3-205-78339-5 .
  • Bettina Brand-Claussen, Monika Jagdfeld: Crazy is female: Artistic interventions by women in psychiatry around 1900. The Wunderhorn 2009, ISBN 3-884-23218-5 .
  • Peter Riek : that.I.have.have.being.drawn.  ; Drawings and rooms for Barbara Suckfüll; on the occasion of the 2007/2008 exhibitions of the Reutlingen Art Association, the Parterre Gallery, Berlin and the Ellwangen Art Association / ed. from the Prinzhorn Collection, Snoeck, Heidelberg 2009, ISBN 978-3-940953-07-0 .
  • Friederike Reents: Surrealism in German-language literature. Walter de Gruyter 2009, ISBN 3-110-21366-4 , p. 274.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Birgitta Fella: The power of the mind: How the brain lets us think, learn and be creative. Verlag Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung GmbH 2015, ISBN 3-898-43388-9 .
  2. ↑ hdw: scream. Write. To draw. In: Reutlinger General Azeiger, February 19, 2009. Retrieved September 26, 2016 .
  3. ↑ Prinzhorn Collection: Barbara Suckfüll (born 1857)
personal data
SURNAME Suckfüll, Barbara
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German draftsman
DATE OF BIRTH 1857
PLACE OF BIRTH Common field
DATE OF DEATH after 1928