Adolf wolfli autobiography in five short

Swiss artist (–)

Adolf Wölfli
Born	()29 February Bern, Switzerland
Died	6 November () (aged&#;66) Bern, Switzerland

Adolf Wölfli (February 29, – November 6, ) (occasionally spelled Adolf Woelfli or Adolf Wolfli) was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art label.

Early life

Wölfli was born in Bern. He was abused both physically and sexually as a child, and was orphaned at the age of ^{[citation needed]} He thereafter grew up in a series of state-run foster homes.

He worked as a Verdingbub (indentured child laborer) and briefly joined the army.

He began to work on a massive autobiography in ; it is a compilation of prose, poetry, drawings, collages, and musical compositions (which he sometimes.

He began to work on a massive autobiography in ; it is a compilation of prose, poetry, drawings, collages, and musical compositions (which he sometimes.

This “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic.

Adolf Wölfli (February 29, – November 6, ) was a Swiss artist who was one of the first artists to be associated with the Art Brut or outsider art.

Translated here are texts such as Wölfli's “Short Biography,” written shortly after his arrival at the Waldau Clinic in Bern, in ; his astoundingly.

In he began his autobiographical magnum opus of pages of both drawings and collages, filling 45 bound volumes.

He was charged with the attempted sexual abuse of minors and was sentenced to a prison term. In , following another similar arrest, he was admitted to the Waldau Clinic, a psychiatric hospital in Bern where he would live out the rest of his life.

He was very disturbed and sometimes violent upon admission, leading to him be