Johann

Hauser

1926 - 1996

Slovakia

Hauser

 

Johann Hauser lived in a displaced persons’ camp with his mother until he was seventeen when he was hospitalized in a mental institution for the firt time. In 1947 he was transferred to the psychiatric hospital in Gugging, where he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. Initially, he did small farming jobs but soon he showed a taste for drawing.

Working primarily with colored pencils, Hauser saturated the paper and drew with a strong and lively palette - mostly women who assert their femininity and sex. There are fighters, «women-canons», warriors charged with eroticism. He also liked airplanes, helicopters and all sorts of everyday objects. Pr Navratil notes that the style of his drawings evolved closely with Hauser’s state of mind. In his manic periods he tended to make the objects bigger, multiplied, accentuated, embelished, while in his depressive phases his drawings were simple and small, with a high degree of abstraction.

  • Lucienne Peiry, Collection de l’Art Brut. Lausanne, co-édition Collection de l'Art Brut et Skira-Flammarion, Paris, 2012.

 

  • Charles Russell, « art/brut.! gugging.! now.! » in Raw Vision n°70, 2010.

 

  • « L'Art Brut aujourd'hui », Artension, Hors Série n°4, septembre 2010.
  • Arte, genio, follia, Il giorno e la notte dell’artista, Siena, Complesso Museale Santa Maria della Scala, 31 gennaio – 25 maggio 2009, Edizioni Antonio Mazzotta, 2009.

  • David Maclagan, Outsider Art, From the Margins to the Marketplace, London, Reaktion books, 2009.

  • Outsider Art Source Book, Art brut, folk art, outsider art, raw vision Ltd, 2009.

 

  • Laurent Danchin, L’Art brut, L’Instinct créateur, Paris, Découverte Gallimard, 2006.

 

  • Lucienne Peiry, L’Art Brut, Paris, Flammarion, Coll. « Tout l’art », 1997, 2006.

 

  • Thomas Röske, Bettina Brand-Claussen, Gerhard Dammann, Collecting Madness, Outsider Art from the Dammann Collection, Heidelberg, Wunderhorn, 2006.

 

  • Animales, sous la direction de Susi Brunner, Zürich, galerie / sammlung s. brunner, 2005.

 

  • John Maizels, L’Art brut, l’art outsider et au-delà, Paris, Phaidon, 2003.

 

  • Colin Rhodes, L’Art Outsider, Art brut et création hors normes au XXe siècle, Paris, Editions Thames & Hudson, Coll. « L’univers de l’art », 2001.

 

  • Carl Aigner, Helmut Zambo, Johann Hauser: Im Hinterland des Herzens, Vienne, Brandstätter, 2001.

 

  • Johann Failacher, Hauser'sFrauen, St. Pölten, Salzbürg, Residenz Verlag Gmbh, 2001.

 

  • « John Maizels interviews Dr. Léo Navratil, founder of the Gugging House of Artists » in Raw Vision n°34, 2001.

 

  • Michel Thévoz, Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne, Lausanne, Musées Suisse, 2001.

 

  • Léo Navratil, Art Brut und Psychiatrie, Gugging, 1946-1986, Vienne, Brandstätter, 1999.

 

  • The Art of Gugging: Johann Hauser, Galerie Kunst and Handel, Vescon-Edition, 1999.

 

  • Johann Feilacher, « Johann Hauser, classics of outsider art » in Raw Vision n°22, 1998.

 

  • Léo Navratil, Gugging 1946-1986, Vienne, Brandstätter, 1997.

 

  • Léo Navratil, « Art Brut et Psychiatrie » in Raw Vision n°15, 1996.

 

  • Léo Naratil, « In Mémoriam, Johann Hauser (1926-1996) » in Raw Vision n°14, 1996.

 

  • Léo Navratil, Die Künstler aus Gugging, Berlin, Medusa Verlags GmbH,1983.

 

  • Michel Thévoz, « Johann Hauser », Gugging, Fascicule de l'Art Brut n°12, Lausanne, publications de la Collection de l’Art Brut,1983.

 

  • Léo Navratil, Johann Hauser, Künst aus Manie und Depression, Berlin, Rogner & Bernhard, 1978.

 

  • Leo Navratil, « Idoles maternelles d'un imbécile », in Entre Eros et Thanatos, Psychopathologie de l'expression, Vol. 14, Sandoz, 1970.