Drawn from the Inventory - The Notebooks of Elisabeth Faulhaber (Paperback)

Elisabeth Faulhaber was born in south west Germany in 1890. By the time she was admitted to a psychiatric hospital in Doesen near Leipzig in 1914, she had worked in a factory, been a chambermaid and a waitress, and had had a child out of wedlock. She was an inmate of the hospital for six years, dying of tuberculosis in 1921, at the age of 31.She wrote, she drew and - according to hospital notes - scribbled unstoppably on furniture, floor, walls. A handful of her drawings survive, and six small notebooks. These now form part of the Prinzhorn Collection, Heidelberg. The notebooks show Elisabeth Faulhaber to have been intelligent and questioning. She was also often muddled to an extreme. Her work is imbued with sensibility. The notebooks varied subject matter and range of graphic invention show a wonderful artistic talent.Sarah Jacobs rendition of the notebooks contains more than 550 drawings by Faulhaber but, although the rendition contains one page for every page of the notebooks, it is not a facsimile. Instead, black and white photographs of the drawings have been reversed, and then partly erased so that what is presented is both faithful to the original, and insistently the opposite. Freely translated extracts from the Faulhaber 's texts have also been included, together with a selection of the poems and songs which Faulhaber copied into her notebooks. These have been left in the original German. The rendition has been produced in association with Sammlung Prinzhorn, UniversitaetsKlinikum, Heidelberg.Sarah Jacobs is an artist living in London.

General

Imprint:	Colebrooke Publications
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	May 2011
First published:	May 2011
Editors:	Sarah Jacobs
Creators:	Elisabeth Faulhaber
Foreword by:	Thomas Roeske
Dimensions:	280 x 210 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	656
ISBN-13:	978-0-9568575-0-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Art forms, treatments & subjects > Decorative arts & crafts > Folk art Books > Arts & Architecture > History of art / art & design styles > From 1900 > Art styles, 1960 - > Conceptual art
LSN:	0-9568575-0-7
Barcode:	9780956857507

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