Navratil, Leo#
b. Tuernitz (Lower Austria), July 3, 1921, physician, 1946-1986 worked at the Gugging mental hospital. Discovered and promoted numerous (self-taught) artists among his chronically ill patients. Upon his initiative a "House of Artists" was founded in Gugging. Organized exhibitions and edited publications.
Publications#
J. Hauser, Kunst aus Manie und Depression, 1978; Die Kuenstler aus Gugging, 1983; A. Walla, 1988; E. Herbeck, Im Herbst da reiht der Feenwind, 1992 (ed.); Schizophrene Dichter, 1994; Gugging 1946-1986 (vol. 1: Art brut und Psychiatrie, vol. 2: Werke und ihre Kuenstler), 1997; Die Gugginger Methode, 1998; Art brut und Psychiatrie, 1999; Manisch-depressiv. Zur Psychodynamik des Kuenstlers, 1999.