Art brood - the "raw" art

The name Art Brut goes back to the French artist (painter, wine dealer, sculptor) Jean Dubuffet . It describes the autodidactic and original art of people with intellectual disabilities, laypersons or children .

This art movement is also occasionally referred to as the "outsider art" . Charity art often heard in this context. The authors of Art Brut, the works of which have arisen away from the established art system, include both people with mental illness or multiple disabilities as well as the media, prisoners, outsiders or simply socially inappropriate.

Meaning and origin

This "unbodied, raw" art flow was justified in 1945 and sees itself away from established artificial currents or art forms. The works, originally created by psychiatric patients, prisoners and outcasts, illustrate their fragile state of mind and their unorthodox perspectives.

Art brut is therefore free of academic-artistic training and arises from an inner need for expression that the creatively active person fulfills in different ways and can thus make part of his innermost artistically visible. The autodidact works primarily for itself and not for an audience. Commercial considerations also play no role in most cases.

The term "Art Brut" has now become internationally prevailed and has made a great contribution to recognition of marginalized art (art of population groups or social groups that are urged to take part in society and can therefore only take part in cultural, political and economic life) .

Demolation of social conventions

The art of Art Brut is a memorial of the avant -garde zeitgeist of the 20th century. These works come from autodidacts that follow their own instincts and do not orientate themselves on existing styles or movements. The results are original, emotional masterpieces that are unique to each artist and differ from those inspired by others.

Although Jean Dubuffet, as a supposed founder of this art flow, has no completed art studies, he is still seen as a pioneer of this movement. He advocated the values ​​of the company outed by society and looked for a path to promote horror of mental illnesses

This ultimately led him to shape the term kind of brood to legitimize the works of art in this group.

From the edge of society to the mainstream

In the mid -1940s, Jean Dubuffet began to curate works of this art flow. In the late 70s, he opened the Collection de l'Art brood in Lausanne, Switzerland, to greet the general public in the world of alternative arts.

Since then, numerous other institutions have followed his role model, such as La Maison Rouge & the Musée des Arts Décoratif in Paris, who honored the artists on the sidelines of the company with other exhibitions.

Although Art Brut was not interested in a public judgment, such exhibitions brought their unconventional works to the awareness of the mainstream culture group.

Important outsider artists and important pioneers

In addition to Dubuffet, Adolf Wölfi is a remarkable outsider artist. His difficult childhood brought him to prison and after his release, schizophrenia was diagnosed.

Adolf Wölfli is now taken into account as an important artist of the 20th century and his work is exhibited worldwide. When he became at the age of 35 in the Psychiatric Institute Waldau near Bern, he began to draw. Wölfli started to reorganize his life and the world. He put more than 25,000 pages on paper that were later published. In it he formulated a spectacular youth and a magnificent future.

The first public exhibitions with drawings by Adolf Wölfli took place in 1921 - still in his lifetime. After his death, the French artist Jean Dubuffet presented works Wölflis as part of the collection of the "Compagnie de l'Art brut" in Paris. In 1963 he was part of the exhibition "Image of the Mordner" in the Kunsthalle Bern, curated by Harald Szeemann. In 1976, visitors were able to experience the artist's first comprehensive show at the Bern Art Museum, which was subsequently shown in Europe and the USA. In 2017, the exhibition " Adolf Wölfli. A Kingdom of 25,000 pages" announced its work of the Japanese public.

Works by Adolf Wölfli - a selection

Aloïse Corbaz , Augustin Lesage and Alfonso Ossorio are other important representatives of the kind of breed. Although their works are all different, they all have the same freedom in shape, rich colors and child's quality, which indicates the lack of formal training.

Controversy

Due to their extraordinary origins, it is not surprising that Art Brut often stimulates discussions and sometimes heated debates. This is due to the sometimes frightening and unethical topics that represent the artists from the view. This includes, for example, violence or sexualization of children . Nevertheless, they are not considered as complex and analyzed as conventional artists, since the works were not originally designed for exhibition purposes.

Instead, they are simply spontaneous - and sometimes unadorned - reactions to experienced experiences and the individual evaluation of it.

Cultural recognition for Art BRUT is increasing

Through various exhibitions (e.g. Outsiders hiking exhibition ), Art Brut has strongly gained cultural recognition and finds attention in the successful promotion of artistic work for therapeutic purposes.

A separate segment of the art trade is now also specializing in international trade fairs (e.g. the art of art or the New York Outsider Art Fair ) in the autodidactic, unobstructed art. Art brood works that were created by the best -known representatives of the scene and have long been considered to be generally recognized art are often offered at auctions and achieve high results.

In this article in the world, you will learn more information and backgrounds on the art brood exhibition at Kunstköln: The world - spectacular kind of brood on the "Kunstköln"

There are also regular magazines - such as the English magazine RAW Vision - which refer to in particular on Art BRET.

In 2013, autodidactic artists and artistic outsiders took an important place 55th Biennale of Venice (2022) With the Collection de l'Art brood in Lausanne and other museums supported by Dubuffet, this art movement received increasingly greater attention.

Many art museums also began to organize exhibitions for art brood artists and to collect works from this area, such as the Aargau Kunsthaus , which Louis SOUTER . Even pop musicians, such as David Bowie in his album Outside , which was released in 1995, dealt with the kind of brood.

British indie rock band founded in 2003 gave itself .

Another milestone of the "Outsider Art" ("outsider art", in the Anglo-American-speaking area) is the Euward-European Art Award Painting and Graphics for Artists with intellectual disabilities " that has existed since 2000. More information on this on the official homepage of the Euward .

We recently reported on this renowned European Art Prize in the article "Euward: Renowned Prize for Painting and Graphics for the 9th time" .

Information and key data on the exhibition of the award winners and nominees in May 2024 can be found here: Euward9 - House of Art in Munich issues award winners .

A selection of kind of brood works

Many other exciting works by well-known outsiders and raw art representatives (UA Adolf Wölfli, Bill Traylor, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jesse Reno, Michel Nedjar, Dan Casado, and Judith Scott) can be found on the following pin wall:

Informative video contributions on the subject

Exhibition of world converter. The art of the outsiders

The exhibition of world converter. The art of the Outsider (2010/2011) devoted itself to the production of art and beyond the limits of the usual.

This exhibition presented works of art that lie beyond the everyday borders and extend from the "image of the mentally sick" to the present. Here you learned the unique worlds of the Outsider artists, from August Walla's "Eternal Land" to the coconut brushes of Judith Scott and the Healing Machines by Emery Blagton . The exhibition was full of exciting discovery stories, such as that of Henry Darger or Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, which left incredible works of art after their death.

This art inspired to break out of the familiar certainty structures of everyday life and discover new things.

Art brood in the GALERIE Gugging

Under the programmatic title "Gugginger Irritations I", the music and art festival in Art / Brut Center Gugging initiated by location manager Nina Katschnig, Michael Martinek and his music label Fabrique Records together with the artists' duo Marshall! Yeti! Yeti!

The Galerie Gugging developed into an international hot spot of the kind of Brut scene and has always been a place of encounter. Artists such as David Bowie, Loys Egg, Constantin Luser, Peter Pongratz, Arnulf Rainer, Gerhard Roth, Daniel Spoerri and the London Fashion Designer Christopher Kane were so examined by the Gugginger artists. Since 2018, works of art by Leopold Strobl an integral part of the collection of the Museum of Modern Art New York (MOMA) ; In addition, the Guggingen artists can also be seen Albertina , the Belvedere , the Landesgalerie Lower Austria and the Mumok

In December 2021, the Galerie Gugging Vienna its doors in the heart of downtown Vienna with Marco Simonis Bastei10. This kind of brood hot spot is unique worldwide in this form. As a modern exhibition and meeting place, it offers a concept of a gallery of the senses that did not yet exist internationally. The gallery makes a bridge from Maria Gugging to Vienna to bring new customers closer to the world of Guggingen artists and to create a special place of encounter and exchange.

Art brood - schizophrenic artists

A collection of art brood works of art by people who suffered from schizophrenia (from the books "Outsider Art: Spontaneous Alternatives" and "Beyond Reason: Art and Psychosis"):

Further contact points for Art Brut:

Below is a small overview of different contact points that bring you closer to the world of Art Breed:

Museum "Collection de l'Art brut" in Lausanne

The extraordinary Museum Collection de L'Art Brut exhibits works of (almost) normal people, no “artist”. The expression of these images is often scary and intense - by short explanations in addition to the pictures, the viewer is brought closer to the background and the history of the author (mostly mentally ill people).

WebLink: artbrut.ch

Journal “Raw Vision

The English -language artificial letter RAW Vision is the only magazine worldwide of Art Brut (Outsider Art). The newspaper published by John Maizels was recognized in 1998 as the best art office.

In the individual editions, information on the subject of outsid art (exhibition dates, conference reports, and exhibition reviews) is published and new artists presented.

Weblink: rawvision.com

Galerie Gugging

Galerie Gugging is an important worldwide unique presentation and creation room for genuine, original art with its own aesthetics. For 29 years, the gallery has been showing works by the Gugginger artists and their international colleagues in order to maintain more visibility for their work as part of contemporary art and to promote previously undiscovered artists.

Many do not know that the Guggingen artists are the real owners of the gallery. The Galerie Gugging team works with enthusiasm, appreciation and knowledge to increase their influence in the national and international art scene and to accompany art enthusiasts and collectors on their passion. In this context, the gallery sees itself as a Role model how cooperation can work.

The Galerie Gugging is part of the brut center gugging , consisting of the Gugging studio, the house of artists, the Museum Gugging and the private foundation - artists from Gugging. The proximity of the works of the works of the Gugginger artists and their presentation is unique in the world. In the wonderful surroundings in the middle of the Wienerwald, work is artistic every day.

Fields of activity:

• Represented by the Gugginger artists as well as discovering and promoting still unknown artists
• Worldwide cooperation with recognized artists, galleries, museums and collections
• 3 exhibitions per year in Maria Gugging with accompanying catalog
• 4 exhibitions in the Galerie Gugging Vienna in Vienna
• Participation in international trade fairs such as the Drawing Now Art Fair Paris, the Outsider Art Fair New York, ...
• Since 2017, organizer of the Gugging Special Edition - a format that offers artists with reference to the Guggingen artists / to the kind of brood and joy in the experiment. Again and again, composed works for premiere such as “Paradise Lost” by Christopher Chaplin, “Sensitive Figure” by Lukas Lauermann or the unique reading “Brandauer reads Bowie” by Klaus Maria Brandauer.

Weblink: Galeriegging.com

Gallery arte nuova

The arte Nuova gallery in Switzerland specialized in the type of brood and created collections of various artists.

Weblink: https://artenuova-artlife.ch/

Gallery Koko

The Koko Gallery in Vienna focuses on the kind of brood. It offers spaces for exhibitions, vernissages, exhibitions and business lunches.

Weblink: https://www.galerie-koko.at

Kunsthaus Kannen

The Kunsthaus Kannen in Münster is a museum for outsid art and kind of brood, with galleries, art projects and studios. As an integrative meeting place, it enables the public to discover the outsiders of art.

Weblink: kunsthaus-kannen.de

Outsider art fair

The Outsider Art Fair, founded in New York in 1993, and now also in Paris, is the largest international art fair, which focuses specifically on autodidactic art and presents works by recognized masters and living artists such as George Widener, Susan Te Kahurangi King, Shinichi Sawada, Christine Sefolosha and Luboš Plný.

The OAF soon became known for its unconventional spirit and played a crucial role in promoting a passionate group of collectors and a broader recognition of outsider art in contemporary art starring.

Weblink: OutsiderArtfair.com

Lam - Lille Métropole, Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art brood

The Lam - Lille Métropole, Musée d'Art Moderne, d'Art Contemporain et d'Art brut is a museum of modern art, contemporary art and kind of breed. It was opened in 1983 and is located in Villeneuve-d'Ascq, near the northern French city of Lille. 

Modern art, contemporary art, art brood: three collections and over 7,000 works on an exhibition area of ​​4,000 m² are the backbone of this remarkable museum. Each of these artistic sections also offers a discovery of the masterpieces of art history and the subtle continuation of these subject areas.

WebLink: musee lam.fr/fr/fr

Our book recommendations on the topic:

1. Dubuffet & Art brood. In the intoxication of art (2005)

Dubuffet & Art Brut-in the intoxication of the art of Jean Dubuffet and Jean-Hubert Martin. Catalog for the exhibition in the Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, 2005 Additional information with 250 color and black and white images.

ISBN-10 88-7439-227-3 / 887439273 ISBN-13 978-88-7439-227-8 / 978874392278

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2. The Kunsthaus Kannen Book: Art of the Present - Art Brut and Outsider Art: Art of the Present - Art Brut and Outsider Art (2016)

In the recent history of art and psychiatry, there are only a few practice models that have approached the idea of ​​inclusion in the artistic pre-forming and have thus become pioneering like the Kunsthaus Kannen in Münster. Since the early 1980s, the Alexians had started to promote artistically particularly talented residents. The Kunsthaus Kannen, today a museum for exhibitions on contemporary art, Art Brut and Outsider Art, with artists' studios and a gallery area, became the initially created freedom in the house.

ISBN-10: 3735603033; ISBN-13: 978-3735603036

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3. The participation character of art: Art Brut / Outsider Art and Inclusion (2020)

Joseph Beuy's concept art as a process of inclusion. As he said, he was about the "participation character" and the "social sculpture". In the art forms of the art brood/outsider art and inclusive exhibitions there are current points of view and perspectives. The Hamburg studio community "Die Schlumper", which has existed for forty years, has set an accent. Nine texts on representative aspects and discourses offer a handy -historical overview. You collect relevant information and examples of social, art and museum educational areas as well as art workshops.

ISBN-10: 3779962829; ISBN-13: 978-3779962823

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4. Outsider Art: Past, Present & Perspective, English edition (2021)

The publication Outsider Art - Past, Present & Perspective brings together international voices from science and practice that are critical of the topic. Interdisciplinary methods and theories of art history, image science and philosophy, but also contemporary practices of contextualization, presentation and mediation play an important role. Using examples from art market research, historical and contemporary exhibition practices as well as artistic support, the publication enables a multi -layered image of a fascinating topic.

ISBN-10: 3731909812; ISBN-13: 978-3731909811

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5. Outsider Art: Art Brut and Its Affinities (World of Art), English. Edition (2023)

In this comprehensive and indispensable guide, Colin Rhodes gives an overview of the history and reception of the Outsider Art - first of the Dubuffet and the Surrealists, now estimated by a broader audience - and at the same time gives new insights into the achievements of both significant personalities and newly discovered artists as the accommodation of specialized studio than the relationship between outstanding and contemporary art Mainstream art world has developed and is increasingly intertwined. From the spirit led by Madge Gill to Schizophrenic Adolf Wölfli, Rosemarie Koczÿ's expression from trauma to Nek Chand's outdoor creations-these people passively and obsessively pursue the vision of their vision.

ISBN-10: 0500204861; ISBN-13: 978-0500204863

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6. Art brood: The Origins of Outsider Art, Engl. Edition (2006)

This book, celebrated by the criticism, traces the history of the concept of Art Brut, a movement that had profound effects on art and social history. The presentation is rounded off by biographical notes on the artists presented and an extensive bibliography. This revised edition contains current information about modern representatives of Art Brut and the collection itself, including two new pictures of works by the artist Judith Scott. All reproduced works, most of the collection created by Dubuffet, have retained their subversive freedom that are still fascinated and inspired by artists and collectors.

ISBN-10: 2080305433; ISBN-13: 978-2080305435

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