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unusual facts about outsider art



Andrija Puharich

While working in Mexico, Puharich married and later divorced the future Baltimore outsider art promoter Rebecca Alban Hoffberger.

August Klotz

August Klett (Pseudonym: August Klotz) (1866 in Heilbronn-1928) was a German schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill.

George Widener

His work can be found in many private and public Outsider Art collections, including the Bruno Decharme ABCD Collection in Paris, The American Folk Art Museum, The Art Collection of the UC Davis M.I.N.D. Institute, and The Collection de l’Art Brut.

Jeff Roland

Jeff Roland is also curating for the city of Liverdun, and organizes shows at Chateau Corbin, specializing in outsider art.

John Kane

He inadvertently paved the way for other self-taught artists, from Grandma Moses to Outsider Art.

Karl Brendel

Karl Brendel is the pseudonym of Karl Genzel (1871 – 1925), a schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1923, in German; English edition 1972).

Little Creatures

The cover art was created by outsider artist Howard Finster, and was selected as album cover of the year by Rolling Stone magazine.

Paul Salvator Goldengreen

Participation as guest in the "annual exhibition 2008 Outsider Art" in the Museum for Art Brut and Outsider Art as well as contemporary art Kunsthaus Kannen, Münster, Germany, from

The Vivian Girls

The name "The Vivian Girls" comes from the work of outsider artist Henry Darger.

William A. F. Browne



In 1839, Browne had initiated one of the first collections of art by mental patients in institutions, gathering a large amount of work which he had bound into three volumes, in many ways a forerunner of Hans Prinzhorn's Artistry of the Mentally Ill and the academic study of outsider art (art brut).


see also

John Maizels

Maizels is the author of several art books including the Outsider Art Sourcebook, Raw Creation: Outsider Art and Beyond, and Raw Erotica which he has most recently been working on with Roger Cardinal and Colin Rhodes.

Roger Cardinal

Roger Cardinal is the author of the book Outsider Art, published in 1972, and is Emeritus Professor at the University of Kent.