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Aloïse Corbaz was born in [[Lausanne]], Switzerland in 1886.<ref name="Collection de l'Art Brut">{{cite web|title=40 Ans Collection de l’Art Brut Lausanne: Aloïse|url=http://www.artbrut.ch/en/21004/1000/auteurs/aloise|publisher=Collection de l'Art Brut|accessdate=22 March 2016}}</ref> Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, Aloïse worked as a dressmaker. She eventually found work as a teacher and a governess, in [[Potsdam]], at the court of German Kaiser [[Wilhelm II]]. While there, she developed an obsessive romantic passion for the Kaiser. The start of [[WWI]] necessitated Aloïse's return to Switzerland. Her imaginary romance with the Kaiser continued, leading to her being diagnosed with [[schizophrenia]] and committed to the asylum at Cery-sur-Lausanne in 1918.<ref name="Collection de l'Art Brut" /> |
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Aloïse Corbaz (28 June 1886 – 5 April 1964) was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.
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Aloïse Corbaz was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1886.[1] Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, Aloïse worked as a dressmaker. She eventually found work as a teacher and a governess, in Potsdam, at the court of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. While there, she developed an obsessive romantic passion for the Kaiser. The start of WWI necessitated Aloïse's return to Switzerland. Her imaginary romance with the Kaiser continued, leading to her being diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to the asylum at Cery-sur-Lausanne in 1918.[1]
Work
She started drawing and writing poetry in secret circa 1920, but most of her early work has been destroyed; director of the hospital Hans Steck and general practitioner Jacqueline Porret-Forel first took an interest in 1936, and her work was finally discovered by Dubuffet in 1947. He believed Aloïse cured herself by ceasing to fight against her illness, by choosing to cultivate it and make use of it instead.[2]
Her work is erotic, consisting primarily of beautiful women with voluptuous curves and flowing hair attended by lovers in military uniform. She used the vivid colors of crayons, pencils, and flower juice to fill entire sheets of paper. Her compulsion to make marks on every inch of paper is a "horror vacui" remarkably similar to that of Adolf Wölfli.
References
- ^ a b "40 Ans Collection de l'Art Brut Lausanne: Aloïse". Collection de l'Art Brut. Retrieved 22 March 2016.
- ^ Outsider Art Sourcebook, ed. John Maizels, Raw Vision, Watford, 2009, p.62
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