06-01-2025, 12:30 AM
He was mentioned before but have you actually taken a look at Adolf Wölflis artworks?
The similarities to VM rosettes are quite remarkable and similarly feature repeating elements.
After a traumatic and violent childhood, Wölfli spent most of his life in a psychiatric hospital and without any education began creating an endless stream of drawings, music and monumental stories, sometimes mixed together.
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The similarities to VM rosettes are quite remarkable and similarly feature repeating elements.
After a traumatic and violent childhood, Wölfli spent most of his life in a psychiatric hospital and without any education began creating an endless stream of drawings, music and monumental stories, sometimes mixed together.
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Quote:[The images Wölfli produced were complex, intricate and intense. They worked to the very edges of the page with detailed borders. In a manifestation of Wölfli's "horror vacui", every empty space was filled with two small holes. Wölfli called the shapes around these holes his "birds".
His images also incorporated an idiosyncratic musical notation. This notation seemed to start as a purely decorative affair but later developed into real composition which Wölfli would play on a paper trumpet.
In 1908, he set about creating a semi-autobiographical epic which eventually stretched to 45 volumes, containing a total of over 25,000 pages and 1,600 illustrations. This work was a mix of elements of his own life blended with fantastical stories of his adventures from which he transformed himself from a child to 'Knight Adolf' to 'Emperor Adolf' and finally to 'St Adolf II'. Text and illustrations formed the narrative, sometimes combining multiple elements on kaleidoscopic pages of music, words and colour.