aloïse.! Corbaz

The Swiss Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), whose artworks were created exclusively during her stay in a psychiatric hospital, which lasted more than 40 years, is the most famous woman in Art Brut.  The second solo show featuring a female artist at the museum was dedicated to her in 2010. Corbaz’s main motif was herself, mostly in conjunction with her fictitious lovers. Her depictions both of her own and fictional love stories are romantic, glorified, and borne of the notion of the fulfillment of the highest desires in love. The artist often sewed together the individual works, drawn on thin papers, to form long trails. From the early, delicate attempts to the highlight of the exhibition, the twelve-meter-long scroll painting “Rouleau de la nativité”, the “Scroll of the Birth of Christ”, the fantastic world of this painter could be explored.