National Gallery to Show Art on the Margins

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Mary Magdolna (1950s)

The exhibition will feature 110 works from art therapy workshops in Austria and an additional 50 from the collection of the Psychiatry Museum of Budapest.  A series of drawings by Count Ernő Teleki, from the National Gallery's collection, will also go on display.

 

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Ernő Teleki: Painter (1967)

The term art brut was coined by the French artist Jean Dubuffet to describe art created outside of the generally accepted boundaries of art culture. Dubuffet focussed particularly on art by psychiatric patients.

Photo: Hungarian National Gallery
 

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Susanne Kuzma: Tukán (2006)

For further information visit the National Gallery's web page on the exhibition.