Leo Navratil

Leo Navratil ( born July 3, 1921 in Türnitz, † September 18, 2006 in Vienna ) was an Austrian psychiatrist. Navratil has made to the research, promotion and appreciation of the so-called " state -bound art" in the artistic expressions of the patient's psychiatric asylums deserves whose works are often subsumed under the term Art Brut.

Life

Since 1946, Leo Navratil was at the State Mental Hospital Maria Gugging in Klosterneuburg, Lower Austria and psychiatrists since 1956 primary at the local hospital. He suggested, initially for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes, patients zeichnerischem and picturesque expression. He established order to a departure in psychiatry at the beginning of the 20th century, when Walter Morgenthaler in Switzerland ( A mentally ill as an artist, Bern 1921), Hans Prinzhorn in Germany ( Artistry of the mentally ill, Heidelberg 1922) and Marcel Reja in France ( L'Art chez les fous, Paris 1907) had first directed attention to the artistic production of the mentally ill.

In 1950 he got together with his wife Erna in Lower Austria Klosterneuburg their son Walter, who also devoted himself to the nature brut later as his father.

In Navratils work ( exclusively men ), a small group of expressive patients emerged, whose production was next in the Galerie St. Stephan issued in Vienna in 1970. The late 1960s and in the 1970s Gugging was a place of pilgrimage for the Viennese ( and other European ) artists. After overcoming legal hurdles ( medical confidentiality, etc.), it was possible to let the artists come out from anonymity or pseudonymity, so that some of them, including the painter Johann Hauser, Oswald Tschirtner and August Walla and the poet Ernst Herbeck today as a recognized artists are seen in the official art world.

The House of Artists, founded by Navratil in 1981 on the site of Gugginger hospital under the name Center for Art and psychotherapy, was renamed under Navratils successor Johann Feilacher in its present name. 1994 a gallery was founded on the ground floor of the building. They moved in 1997 to a neighboring building, now known as Art / Brut Center Gugging in which there is also an open studio (2001), a private foundation (2003) and a museum (2006).

Honors

September 18, 2006 Leo Navratil died of a stroke in a Vienna hospital, he was laid on the Gersthoferstrasse cemetery to rest.

Works

  • Schizophrenia and Art, Munich: dtv 1965.
  • Schizophrenia and language, Munich: dtv 1966.
  • A b glow in the clover. Psychopathological texts, The Hague: Mouton 1971.
  • About Schizophrenia and the pen and ink drawings of the patient OT, Munich: dtv 1974.
  • Johann Hauser. Art of mania and depression, Munich: Rogner & Bernhard 1978.
  • Discussions with schizophrenics. Munich: dtv 1978.
  • Ernst Herbeck Alexander. Selected Texts 1961-1981, ( afterword v. L. Navratil ), Salzburg Residence 1982.
  • The artists from Gugging, Berlin -Vienna: Medusa 1983.
  • Schizophrenia and poetry, Munich: dtv 1985.
  • August Walla, his life and his art, Nördlingen: Greno 1988.
  • The superiority of the bear. Theory of creativity, Munich: Arcis 1995.
  • Art brut and psychiatry. Gugging 1946-1986, 2 volumes, Vienna: Brandstätter 1999.
  • Schizogenie? Views of treated children. Paperback 3 issues sorted. Hubert & Bosse Dusseldorf 1997.
  • Michael von Suttner. Schizophrenia during intercourse, collected drawings. Brommert & Zarachnow, Hildesheim: Mertens 2001.
  • Ernst Herbeck, the past is past. Eds. by Carl Aigner and Leo Navratil. Kunsthalle Krems 2002
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