Adolf Wölfli
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Adolf Wölfli was a Swiss visual artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label. He was diagnosed with schizophrenia and spent most of his life confine
Adolf Woelfli
Wölfli's Irren-Anstalt Band-Hain, 1910
General view of the island Neveranger, 1911
Die Skt-Wandanna-Kathedrale in Band-Wand, 1910.
Horror vacui (art)
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In visual art, horror vacui, or kenophobia, is a phenomenon in which the entire surface of a space or an artwork is filled with detail and content, leaving as little perceived emptiness as possible. I
Adolf Wölfli
…Wölfli produced were complex, intricate and intense. They worked to the very edges of the page with detailed borders. In a manifestation of Wölfli's "horror vacui", every empty space was filled with two small holes. Wölfli called the shapes around these holes his "birds". His images also incorporated an idiosyncratic…
The Fall of Babylon, engraving by Jean Duvet from the Apocalypse series, circa 1555, plate size: 11+7⁄8 in × 8+3⁄8 in (300 mm × 210 mm)
Only Two Colours
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