Citation

Böker W. Z. Klin. Psychol. Psychiatr. Psychother. 2002; 50(4): 387-393.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2002, Verlag F. Schöningh)

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Abstract

Since 1914, a collection of artistical productions (paintings, ceramics, writings) of psychiatric patients built up by W. Morgenthaler exists at the Psychiatric University Hospital in Berne/Switzerland. Part of it are 170 water-color paintings by Rosa Marbach (1881-1926). From 1908 until 1926 when she committed suicide, she was hospitalized in two psychiatric asylums, the last years in Berne, under the diagnosis of katatonia. Her paintings demonstrate a touching contrast between her sufferings as a severely mentally ill person and the dreamy idyll of an aesthetic phantasy world in which she encounters her former sweetheart as a "Löwenbraut" (bride of a lion).

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Keywords

art; article; case report; catatonia; esthetics; fantasy; female; human; love; schizophrenia; suicide