The Collection currently includes more than 750 paintings,
drawings, graphics and sculptures by some 140 artists, over 340 are on the page. Many
of them are represented by several artworks. The vaste majority
oh the exhibits are works on paper.
In the Collection are works by important contemporary artists
of european origin as Benjamin Bonjour, Johannes Garber,Jaber,
Michel Nedjar, Alain Pauzié, Andrè Robillard,
Ody Saban, Jean Joseph Sanfourche, Gèrard Sendrey,
Pierre Silvin, Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern, Robert
Tatin, Pèpè Vignes and August Walla well as
works by Outsiders from abroad, among others Ted Gordon, Rosemary
Koczy, R.A. Miller, Louis Monza, Royal (Prophet) Robertson
and Purvis Young. In addition, the collection contains a large
number of impressive drawings by artists such as Martha Grunenwaldt,
Paula Pipa, Gerard Sendrey, John Henry Toney, Irene Weismantel
and Carter Lee Wellborn.
The main part of the collection, however, are the artworks
by lesser known, unknown and newly discovered but not less
fascinating artists, which are represented in relatively large
number side by side, equally with those of prominent contemporary
protagonists. These works are shaping the nature of the collection.
The construction of the collection does not follow strictly
respected principles, but personal preferences of the collector.
Neither the formation of a focal point nor the emphasis of
a particular thematic aspect is at the forefront, but rather
the desire to the diversity of artistic forms of expression
and to collect artists of various kinds as possible. Therefore,
it is not expected a collection of homogenous profile as a
coherent whole. Moreover, the outsider art by its very nature
is not an art style, school or movement with its own characteristics.
Through acquisitions, which added continually, the collection
is growing constantly. Nevertheless, it is not designed to
be comprehensive and does not claim to be a broad, representative
overview of the art of the outsiders. It remains fragmentary,
incomplete and determinated by the own personal taste, preferences,
coincidence and not least of limited financial resources.
On this website a selection of 280 artworks is presented
for a broad public. It is to be hoped that the view into the
art worlds of outsiders open new aspects, relatives the prejudices
and contributes to an impartial, differentiated handling with
this art.
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