Inge Jádi

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Inge Jádi , widowed Inge Jarchov , (* 1936 in Ludwigshafen am Rhein ) is a former German doctor and curator .

biography

Inge Jádi is the daughter of a dentist and painter. She grew up in Neckargemünd and was a student at the Kurfürst-Friedrich-Gymnasium Heidelberg from 1946 . After graduating from high school, she began to study medicine at the Universities of Heidelberg and Munich, and in 1971 trained as a specialist in psychiatry .

From 1973 Inge Jádi worked as a curator on the conservation and cataloging of texts and drawings of mentally ill people that Hans Prinzhorn had compiled between 1919 and 1921 at the Heidelberg University Psychiatric Clinic . In 1980 she presented the first 800 exhibits from the Prinzhorn Collection to the public in Heidelberg . She also analyzed the patient's artistic expression in connection with the medical history. When the collection got its own museum in a renovated lecture hall building of the neurological clinic in September 2001, Inge Jádi became its first director. In October 2001 she retired and in the same year received the science award of the Dr. Margrit Egnér Foundation . In 2007 she took part in the documentary The Prinzhorn Collection - Crazy Beauty , for which director Christian Beetz received the Adolf Grimme Prize in 2008 .

From 1959 until his suicide in 1983 she was married to the architect and painter Fritz Jarchov . Since 1984 she has been married to the doctor and art teacher Ferenc Jádi .

Publications

  • Goodbye says my genius. Ordugele is a must . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1985, ISBN 978-3-88423-034-3 .
  • with Ferenc Jádi: Muzika. Music-related works by the mentally ill . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 1989, ISBN 978-3-88423-060-2 .
  • with Bettina Brand-Claussen (Ed.): August Natterer . The evidential value of the images. Life and work, interpretations . Verlag Das Wunderhorn, Heidelberg 2001, ISBN 978-3-88423-161-6 .
  • with Thomas Fuchs, Bettina Brand-Claussen, Christoph Mundt (Hrsg.): Wahn Welt Bild. The Prinzhorn Collection. Contributions to the museum opening . Springer, 2002, ISBN 978-3-54044-193-9 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Vision and revision of a discovery , accessed April 1, 2017
  2. ↑ Art and psychiatric history valuable , accessed on April 1, 2017
  3. ^ Between madness and art , accessed April 1, 2017
  4. ↑ Found something for your life , accessed April 1, 2017

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personal data
SURNAME Jádi, Inge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jarchov, Inge
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German doctor and curator
DATE OF BIRTH 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Ludwigshafen am Rhein