!!!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.


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