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Oswald Tschirtner

Oswald Tschirtner (1920 - 2007) was active/lived in Austria.  Oswald Tschirtner is known for Painting.

After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981.  Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there.  Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a comprehensive body of drawings in Indian ink pen, executed mainly in small formats.

The artists from Gugging belong to the worldwide most considerable exponents of Art Brut.  Jean Dubuffet, the representative of this art movement, has personally acknowledged this group.  Their works are represented at the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne as well as in many museums of contemporary art, as for example the Museum of Modern Art in Vienna, the Collecti   ...  [Displaying 1000 of 1205 characters.]  Artist bio

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Facts about Oswald Tschirtner

After his early wish to become a priest and the military service in the Second World War, Oswald Tschirtner was diagnosed with schizophrenia and hallucinations after his return from war and was internalized to the Gugging asylum, in Klosterneuburg just outside Vienna, where the neurologist and psychiatrist Leo Navratil founded the ‘Haus der Künstler’ in 1981.  Ever since then patients engage in artistic activities there.  Oswald Tschirtner lived here until his death and left behind a comprehensive body of drawings in Indian ink pen, executed mainly in small formats.

The artists from Gugging belong to the worldwide most considerable exponents of Art Brut.  Jean Dubuffet, the representative of this a  ...  Displaying 750 of 1205 characters.

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