History
2016
10 years museum gugging
On June 5, 2016 museum gugging celebrates its 10th anniversary. For over a decade now, the museum has provided a unique exhibition venue for the work of the Artists from Gugging at its place of origin, while serving as a forum for international Art Brut and other art genres.
2013
Many artists working in the realm of Art Brut and Outsider Art are represented at the 55th Venice Biennale.
2006
Opening of museum gugging
On June 28, 2006 museum gugging opens with great interest from the public and media. It was conceived and developed by the artistic director of the museum Johann Feilacher together with Nina Katschnig, today the head of galerie gugging. Now works by the Artists from Gugging have a permanent stage, directly on site where the works are created.
(Photo © Josef Bittner)
1997
The gallery moves to the former children’s section of the hospital, built in 1896, which now houses the museum, gallery, and studio.
1986
Johann Feilacher succeeds Navratil. Feilacher transforms the Centre for Art and Psychotherapy into a residential community for artists, thus establishing the House of Artists. The label “patient” is erased: The focus is now on the person and artist.
1983
Psychiatrist and artist Johann Feilacher (*1954) becomes Navratil’s assistant.
The Artists from Gugging begin painting the southern façade of the future House of Artists building.
Exhibitions of works by the Artists from Gugging in museums in German-speaking parts of Europe.
1976
Official opening of the Collection de l’Art Brut by Dubuffet, which he gave to the City of Lausanne, Switzerland in 1971.
1969
Navratil corresponds with the founder of Art Brut, Jean Dubuffet, and Dubuffet confirms that the Artists from Gugging belong to the Art Brut movement.
1954
Psychiatrist Leo Navratil (1921–2006) conducts drawing tests with his patients for diagnostic purposes at the Maria Gugging Psychiatric Clinic.
1945
The French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) begins to develop his new concept of Art Brut (raw art). He speaks of a primal art which attests to a deeply personal formal language and often comes into being spontaneously, outside the framework of academic or art theory education.
1921
Psychiatrist Walter Morgenthaler (1882–1965) publishes his monograph A Psychiatric Patient as an Artist on the life and work of Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli (1864–1930).