ADOLF WÖLFLI. [KATALOG ZUR AUSSTELLUNG BERN, HANNOVER, STUTTGART, WIEN, STOCKHOLM, AMSTERDAM 1976]. by Wölfli, Adolf - Spoerri, Elka - 1976

Berne: Adolf Wolfli Foundation Museum of Fine Arts, 1976. This is a very good hardcover copy in the original illustrated boards. Completely clean inside and out. Slight wrinkle to last few pages lower edges. Text in English. This catalog was prepared for the exhibition at the MFA in 1976. Organized by Spoerri and a team of scholars including Harald Szeemann, Markus Ratz, Peter Bichsel, among others. Illustrated in black & white throughout + 8 color plates.. "Mrs. Spoerri, who sometimes jokingly referred to herself as ''Mrs. Wölfli,'' was a legend in the world of outsider art. She spent more than 20 years deciphering, transcribing, translating and indexing the often densely interwoven writing, iconography and musical scores of Wölfli, a prolific schizophrenic Swiss laborer. Consigned to Waldau, a psychiatric hospital in Bern, from the age of 30 to his death at 66 in 1930, Wölfli created thousands of drawings and 45 large illustrated books containing a total of… Read More

Berne: Fondation Adolf Wölfli, Musée Des Beaux-Arts Berne, 1976. Text: French. 123 pages + extra ca. 20 p.; ill.; 21 x 28 cm; 730 g. Content: 'Testament 'Der Weegweiser' / La Fondation Adolf Wölfli / Préface / Elka Spoerri : Inventaire des formes et types d'images dans l'oeuvre d'Adolf Wölfli / Légendes de Wölfli pour des illustrations de revue / Le vocabulaire formel de Wölfli dessiné par Markus Rätz / Harald Szeemann : Pas de catastrophe sans idylle - Pas d'idylle sans catastrophe / Elisabeth Pulver : 'Signé: Adolf Wölfli, catastrophe' Structure de l'oeuvre littéraire d'Adolf Wölfli / Peter Streiff et Kjell Keller : Adolf Wölfli, compositeur / Peter Bichsel : la géographie / Théodor Spoerri : Identité de la représentation et du représenté dans l'art d'Adolf Wölfli / Hemmo Müller-Suur : l'art de Wölfli:… Read More