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PSYCHIATRY AND ART
Artists as victims and survivors of
National Socialism
The life and work of artists with mental illness represent
a special challenge and opportunity in the discussion of
the Nazi and post-war periods: through their art, we en-
counter people with an evocative destiny. The pictures
move us by creating a personal and active dialogue.
The exhibition focusses on two artists, the architect and
painter Paul Goesch, born in 1885, and the locksmith
Julius Klingebiel (1904 – 1965). Their paintings stand
for the numerous patients who became victims of Nazi
psychiatry. Paul Goesch created important expressionist
paintings while still in a mental asylum. He was killed
in Brandenburg in 1940. Julius Klingebiel was forcibly
sterilised, avoided the killing campaigns and survived
the war. In the post-war period he created a solitary art
environment (“Raumkunstwerk”) in his cell which will be
shown at the congress.
Exhibition:
Artists as victims and survivors of NS psychiatry
Sunday to Thursday
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Hall B
Accompanying symposium:
Artists as victims and survivors of National
Socialism – commemoration in Germany and the
challenges today
Tue, 10 Oct 2017
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11:45– 13:15
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Hall London 1
Documentary:
Outbreak in the art – Julius Klingebiel's Cell
Thu, 12 Oct 2017
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11:45– 13:15
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Hall London 1
Registered, persecuted, annihilated:
guided exhibition tours
German-language and English-language tours
are offered on 9 October I 15:00 and 17:00
and on 11 October I 13:30.
Please meet your guide 10 minutes earlier in
Hall B where the exhibition is located.