Aloïse Corbaz (June 28, 1886 - April 5, 1964) was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists. Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, she found work as a teacher and a governess at the court of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. While there, she developed an obsessive crush on the Kaiser that would lead to her being diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1918.

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  • Aloïse Corbaz (June 28, 1886 - April 5, 1964) was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists. Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, she found work as a teacher and a governess at the court of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. While there, she developed an obsessive crush on the Kaiser that would lead to her being diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1918. She started drawing and writing poetry in secret circa 1920, but most of her early work has been destroyed; director of the hospital Hans Steck and general practitioner Jacqueline Porret-Forel first took an interest in 1936, and her work was finally discovered by Dubuffet in 1947. Her work is erotic, consisting primarily of beautiful women with voluptuous curves and flowing hair attended by lovers in military uniform. She used the vivid colors of crayons, pencils, and flower juice to fill entire sheets of paper. Her compulsion to make marks on every inch of paper is a "horror vacui" remarkably similar to that of Adolf Wölfli. (en)
  • Aloïse Corbaz (dite Aloïse) est une créatrice d'art brut suisse, née à Lausanne le 28 juin 1886 et morte à Gimel-sur-Morges, le 5 avril 1964. Son nom d'état-civil était Héloïse Corbaz, mais sa famille et l'artiste elle-même ont toujours utilisé le prénom d'Aloïse. (fr)
  • АЛОИЗ, полное имя Алоиза Корбац (фр. Aloïse Corbaz, dite Aloïse, 28 июня 1886, Лозанна – 5 апреля 1964, Жимель-сюр-Морж, кантон Во) – швейцарская художница, родоначальница швейцарской ветви Ар брют. (ru)
  • Aloïse Corbaz, genannt auch Aloyse oder Aloïse (* 28. Juni 1886 in Lausanne; † 5. April 1964 in Gimel / Schweiz), ist eine der wichtigsten Künstlerinnen der Art Brut. Sie lebte von 1918 bis zu ihrem Tode in psychiatrischen Anstalten, wo sie ein umfangreiches Werk von Zeichnungen und Texten in bunter Fettkreide auf Einschlagpapier entwickelte. Die Psychiaterin Jacqueline Porret-Forel, die sie seit 1941 in der Anstalt La Rosière in Gimel-sur-Morges betreute, hat Motivik und Inhalte der Kompositionen entschlüsselt und als ein «Theater des Universums» interpretiert. 1948 wurde Aloïse Corbaz von dem französischen Künstler Jean Dubuffet erstmals im Kunstkontext, in der Compagnie de l'art brut in Paris ausgestellt; seitdem gilt sie als eine der wichtigsten Vertreterinnen der Art Brut oder der Outsider Art. Umfassende Bestände ihres Werks befinden sich in der Collection de l'art brut in Lausanne und im Kunstmuseum Solothurn. (de)
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  • Aloïse Corbaz (June 28, 1886 - April 5, 1964) was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists. Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, she found work as a teacher and a governess at the court of German Kaiser Wilhelm II. While there, she developed an obsessive crush on the Kaiser that would lead to her being diagnosed with schizophrenia and committed to a psychiatric hospital in 1918. (en)
  • Aloïse Corbaz (dite Aloïse) est une créatrice d'art brut suisse, née � Lausanne le 28 juin 1886 et morte � Gimel-sur-Morges, le 5 avril 1964. (fr)
  • АЛОИЗ, полное имя Алоиза Корбац (фр. Aloïse Corbaz, dite Aloïse, 28 июня 1886, Лозанна – 5 апреля 1964, Жимель-сюр-Морж, кантон Во) – швейцарская художница, родоначальница швейцарской ветви Ар брют. (ru)
  • Aloïse Corbaz, genannt auch Aloyse oder Aloïse (* 28. Juni 1886 in Lausanne; † 5. April 1964 in Gimel / Schweiz), ist eine der wichtigsten Künstlerinnen der Art Brut. (de)
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  • Aloïse Corbaz (en)
  • Aloïse Corbaz (fr)
  • Алоиза (ru)
  • Aloïse Corbaz (de)
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