Edward M. Gomez

American Folk Art Museum

Daniel Baumann

Milwaukee Art Museum

Adolf Wölfli

Elka Spoerri

Despite being institutionalized for schizophrenia at age thirty-one, Adolf Wölfli (1864-1930) achieved artistic greatness in his cell at Waldau Mental Asylum near his native Bern, Switzerland. He has had a profound influence on modern art ever since; André Breton described his work as "one of the three or four most important oeuvres of the twentieth century." The Art of Adolf Wölfli offers a fresh vantage point on the artist's remarkably intricate drawings and astonishing collages, as well as his newly translated writings, which are justly celebrated for their dizzying blend of mythology and humor. Also included are illuminating essays by leading specialists on his art and life. Wölfli's youth was one of deprivation. His alcoholic father ran off when Wölfli was five, and his mother died soon after. Despite these travails, he managed to complete his education, acquiring the sophisticated literacy so evident in his later work. However, beginning at age twenty-six, his repeated attempts to molest young girls landed him first in jail and, in 1894, in the asylum. Though violent at first, by 1899 he calmed down--and began to draw. Working primarily in pencil on newsprint, Wölfli created a dense, stunningly detailed medley of wildly imaginative prose texts interwoven with poems, musical compositions, color illustrations, and collages. His five-part magnum opus, "St. Adolf-Giant-Creation," comprises 45 large volumes and 16 notebooks--25,000 pages in all--containing 1,620 drawings and 1,640 collages. Sure to be the authoritative resource for this remarkable oeuvre, this striking book represents compelling testimony that great torment does not preclude great art. EXHIBITION SCHEDULE American Folk Art Museum, New York February 25 - May 18, 2003 Milwaukee Art Museum September 18 - December 12, 2004

St. Adolf-Giant-Creation

The Art of Adolf Wölfli

Reinhold Heller

"The work of Gabriele Munter (1877-1962) shines like a jewel in the male-dominated avant-garde Expressionist movement. Most accounts of the frenetically creative years in Munich and Murnau fail to recognize the uniqueness of Munter's vision: her work is unjustly eclipsed by that of her colleagues, not least Vassily Kandinsky's. This book redresses the balance." "Some one hundred of the artist's most seminal works are reproduced in this lavishly illustrated volume; they include several from private collections that have never before been published." "Gabriele Munter: The Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920 is an exploration of Munter's crucial contribution to German Expressionism in the genres of landscape, portrait and still-life painting. Her place and significance in the development of this movement are critically examined, with particular attention paid to the iconography of her paintings and the lyrical strength of her work."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Years of Expressionism, 1903-1920

Gabriele Münter

The Floyd and Josephine Segel Collection of Photography

Of People and Places

Georgia O'Keeffe

Louisiana (Museum : Humlebæk, Denmark)

Barbara Buhler Lynes

Russell Bowman

Complemented by more than one hundred full-color illustrations, this unusual study examines some of the art, including some seventy-five seminal works dating from 1910 through the 1960s, that Georgia O'Keeffe chose to keep for her own collection and discusses the significance of these works in terms of her oeuvre and her role as artist and collector. 15,000 first printing.

The Artist's Collection

O'Keeffe's O'Keeffes

National Gallery of Art (U.S.)

Matthew S. Witkovsky

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art

Published to coincide with a major exhibition, a thematically arranged, visual survey of modernist photography in central Europe features the work of some one hundred individuals whose creations exemplify the region's potential between the First and Second World Wars.

Modernity in Central Europe, 1918-1945

Foto

Lisa Stone

Margaret Andera

Published on the occasion of an exhibition held at the Milwaukee Art Museum, Feb. 10 -May 6, 2012.

Art from the Anthony Petullo Collection

Accidental Genius

Franz Schulze

This spectacular volume celebrates the reopening of the Milwaukee Art Museum with its new additiion designed by world-famous Spanish architect Santiago Calatrava, joining the original builing by Eero Saarinen.

Building a Masterpiece

Both European and American Folk Art is explored in this volume documenting another facet of the Milwaukee Art Museum s permanent collection of folk and outsider art. This collection includes works by Wolfli, Traylor, Yoakum, Wallis and others. Distributed for the Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin."

The Anthony Petullo Collection of Self-taught & Outsider Art

Driven to Create

Milwaukee Art Museum

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