Aloïse Corbaz

Aloïse Corbaz, also called Aloyse or Aloïse ( born June 28, 1886 in Lausanne, † April 5, 1964 in Gimel / Switzerland ), is one of the most important artists of the Art Brut.

She lived from 1918 until her death in psychiatric hospitals, where she developed an extensive work of drawings and texts in colorful crayon on wrapping paper. The psychiatrist Jacqueline Porret - Forel who in the institution in charge of La Rosière Gimel -sur -Morges, since 1941, has decrypted contents of the motifs and compositions and interpreted as a " theater of the universe ." 1948 was first issued in the context of art, in the Compagnie de l' Art Brut in Paris Aloïse Corbaz by the French artist Jean Dubuffet; since it is one of the most important members of the Art Brut or Outsider Art Comprehensive stocks of their work are in the Collection de l' Art Brut in Lausanne and the Kunstmuseum Solothurn.