Abella, Rodolfo
(1954), Italy
Rodolfo Abella (b. 1954) was born in Tucuman, Argentina. His father was employed as a civil servant and his mother was a teacher. He spent his...
Neuve Invention
The "Neuve Invention" collection assembled subversive and inventive pieces (paintings, drawings, sculptures, fabric creations) by artists out of sync with the cultural circles governed by galleries and museums. Their stylistic approach, their materials and their bold iconographic choices set those first Neuve Invention creators apart from officially recognised art. Today, their creations, providing a new take on art as such, are housed in the Collection de l'Art Brut museum in Lausanne.
All the images contained in this corpus are the property of the Collection de l'Art Brut, Lausanne. They are only available on special request at infoATartbrut.ch
Angkasapura, Noviadi
(1979), New Guinea
Noviadi Angkasapura was born in western New Guinea (the Indonesian side of the island of New Guinea). His parents, natives of Java, settled in...
Anonymes
Folk Art implies a certain familiarity with a cultural heritage; it is based on respect for customs and traditions. During his first explorations,...
Bachelard, Alexandre
(?) Switzerland
We have very little information on this creator. His works belonged to the psychiatrist Hans Steck, who in turn bequeathed them to the Collection...
Bailly, Carol
(1955), Switzerland
Born in Brockton, near Boston, in the United States, Carol Bailly (1955) moved to Switzerland with her family when she was fifteen. Living on...
Baqué, Josep
(1895 – 1967), Spain
Josep Baqué (1895–1967) was born in Barcelona, Spain, where are his father worked in a ceramic tile factory. An...
Bayle, Nicole
(1948), France
Nicole Bayle (1948) was born in the 18th arrondissement of Paris, France. She began studying art without completing her high school education,...
Beaudelere, Karl
France
Karl Beaudelere, as is wont to call himself, grew up in a working-class neighborhood of Marseille (France). His father worked for the French...
Besser, Chris
(1940 - 2022), France
Chris Besser (1940 - 2022) hails from the south of France. Ever since childhood, she has drawn, painted and collected small...
Biazin, Clément-Marie
(1924 - 1981), République centrafricaine
Clément-Marie Biazin (1924–1981) was born into a Yakoma tribe in Central African Republic and attended a missionary school from which he was...
Bojnev, Boris
(1898 – 1969), Russia
Boris Bojnev (1898–1969) was born in Saint Petersburg, in Russia. His father, a teacher of history and literature, died when he was only four....
Burland, François
(1958), Switzerland
François Burland (1958) was born in Lausanne (Switzerland). He began drawing in self-taught fashion at the end of his adolescence. He undertook...
Burnat-Provins, Marguerite
(1872 – 1952), Switzerland
Marguerite Burnat-Provins (1872-1952) was born in Arras, in northern France. She was the eldest of seven children born to prosperous, cultured,...
Carbonel, Pierre
(1925 - 2011), France
Pierre Carbonel (1925–2011) was from Anglet, in the Lower Pyrenees in France. His mother raised five children in difficult financial...
Carles-Tolrà, Ignacio
(1928 - 2019), Spain
Ignacio Carles-Tolrà (1928 - 2019) was born in Barcelona, Spain, and moved to Zurich, Switzerland, when he was twenty-nine. There he met Jean...
Chaissac, Gaston
(1910-1964), France
Born in Avallon, France, Gaston Chaissac came from a humble family. Little attracted by schoolwork, he left school very early and did sundry...
Chardon, Christiane
(1947), France
Christiane Chardon (1947), the eldest of four children, was born in Paris, France. She was brought up by her grandparents until the age of six,...
Coulon, Berthe
(1897-1979), Belgium
Berthe Coulon (1897–1979) was born in Brussels, Belgium, in a very cultured environment. Her father was an artist and her mother, a...
Dalmaso, Michel
(1945- 2024), France
Michel Dalmaso (1945 - 2024) was born in Paris, France, and grew up in Morocco, where he took music lessons, learning the trumpet and...
de Porada, Catherine
(1891–1985), Germany
Very little is known about Catherine de Porada (1891–1985). She was born in Berlin into a family of intellectuals and grew up surrounded...
Dereux, Philippe
(1918 - 2001), France
Philippe Dereux (1918-2001) was born into a modest family of shopkeepers in Lyon (France). Upon completing teacher training college for primary...
Desmoulin, Fernand
(1853 – 1914), France
Fernand Desmoulin (1853–1914) was born in Javerlhac, in the Dordogne, in France, where his parents kept a dry goods and grocery store. His...
Devlin, John
(1954), Canada
John Devlin (1954) was born in Halifax, Canada. He wanted to be a priest and began theological studies at Cambridge in England, when he was...
Ducollet-Michaëlef, Philippe
(1962), France
Philippe Ducollet-Michaëlef (1962) was born in Paris, France. He grew up in a happy family environment, with very affectionate parents and...
Galliéni,Jill
(1948), USA
Jill Galliéni (1948) was born in the United States. She started to make cloth dolls when she was still very young, and at around thirty...
Goffin, Véronique
(1964), Belgium
Our information on this creator is quite incomplete. During the early eighties in Brussels, Véronique Goffin attended La...
Grünenwaldt, Martha
(1910 - 2008), Belgium
Martha Grünenwaldt (1910 - 2008) was born to a large family of modest means in Walloon Brabant...
Guyodo
(1973), Haïti
Frantz Jacques, aka Guyodo (1973), was born in a small house off the Grand Rue, the main commercial street of Port-au- Prince, Haiti, and still...
Hérion, Dominique
(1959), Belgium
Our information on this creator is incomplete. Dominique Hérion was committed to a psychiatric hospital on the outskirts of Brussels:...
Hertig, Werner
(1908–1985), Switzerland
Werner Hertig (1908–1985) was born in Winterthur, Switzerland. After an apprenticeship as a machine operator, he worked for many years in...
Jacqui, Danielle
(1934), France
Danielle Jacqui was born in Nice, France, in 1934. Her mother, a militant feminist who later joined the Resistance, and her father, a jeweller,...
Johnston, Daniel
(1961 - 2019), USA
Daniel Johnston was born in Sacramento, California, the fifth and last child in a devout Christian family. This leading exponent of lo-fi began...
Kaiser, Benno
(1941 - 2022), Switzerland
Benno Kaiser studied art at the Saint-Gallen Fine Arts University. He began making a name for himself in the realm of singular art from 1970,...
Koczÿ, Rosemarie
(1939-2007), Hungary
Of Hungarian and Jewish descent, Rosemarie Koczÿ (1939 - 2007) was born in Recklinghausen (Germany). After being deported...
Krizek, Jan
(1919 - 1985), Czechoslovakia
Jan Krizek was born in a village near Prague (Czechoslovakia). His studies at the Fine Arts Academy of Prague were rapidly ended by the start of...
Lattier, Gérard
(1937), France
Gérard Lattier (1937) was born in Nîmes, in the Gard département in the South of France. In 1944 his father was killed...
Le Carré-Galimard, Simone
(1912 – 1996), France
Simone Le Carré-Galimard (1912-1996) was born in Troyes, France. She lost her father at the age of seven and was brought up by her mother...
Le Postier tchèque
(dates inconnues), Czech republic
To this day, we have almost no information on this anonymous artist, nicknamed "Le Postier tchèque"...
Lortet, Marie-Rose
(1945), France
Marie-Rose Lortet (1945) was born in Strasbourg, France, although she has lived and worked in Haute-Normandie since 1967. Introduced to sewing...
Louden, Albert
(1942), Great Britain
Albert Louden (1942) was born in Blackpool, near London, where his parents were evacuated during the war. He attended school until the age of...
Madame Favre
To date very little is known of Madame Favre, other than that between 1858 and 1860 she made a number of pencil drawings on a spiritualist...
Naeff, Linda
(1926 - 2014), France
Linda Naeff (1926-2014) was born in Bagnolet near Paris, where her Swiss parents lived in exile . Second of five daughters, within the family...
Ouellet, Roger
(1916-1999), Quebec
Roger Ouellet and his wife lived in totally self-sufficient fashion on a small farm in the Charlevoix region. Roger Ouellet, who first worked...
Parguey, Xavier
(1876-1948), France
Born into a family of winegrowers, Xavier Parguey inherits land and properties in the Doubs, his native region, but his resources are much reduced...
Pauzié, Alain
(1936), France
Alain Pauzié (b. 1936) was born in the Aveyron region, France. He grew up in Albi, where his family moved in 1942. He...
Perez, Nathalie
(1963), Belgium
Our information on this creator is incomplete. Raised by her grandmothers, Nathalie Perez never got to know her mother. She attended the art...
Roos, Brigitte
(1952), Switzerland
Brigitte Roos (b. 1952) was born in Lucerne, Switzerland. She studied at the École normale and worked as a teacher for five years,...
Saban, Ody
(1953), Turkey
Ody Saban (1953) was born in Istanbul, Turkey. Her parents – a Spanish-Turkish mother and a Sephardic Jew father – sent her to a...
Sanfourche, Jean Joseph
(1932), France
Jean Joseph Sanfourche (b. 1932) was born in Bordeaux, France. He was initiated into drawing by his father, a mechanic and painter/draftsman. The...
Santos, Emma
(1943-1983), France
Known for her novels, Emma Santos (1943-1983), whose real name was Marie-Annick Legoff, was born in Paris. As a youngster, she endured a serious...
Sardou, Victorien
(1831–1908), France
Victorien Sardou was born in Paris. His parents came from Nice, but were ruined after severe frost destroyed the family olive grove. They moved to...
Schröder-Sonnenstern, Friedrich
(1892 – 1982), Russia
Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), of Lithuanian origin, was born in the Russian region of Sovetsk (formerly Tilsit), close to the...
Sedlak, F.
(?–?), probably Czech Republic
F. Sedlak (?–?). Next to nothing is known about this artist, apart from the fact that he was probably Czech. His drawings, dating from...
Sendrey, Gérard
(1928 - 2022), France
Gérard Sendrey (1928–2022) was born on 12 March 1928 in Bordeaux, France. A career in local government that began...
Simon, Victor
(1903–1976), France
Victor Simon (1903–1976) was born in the small commune of Bruay-en-Artois, in the Pas-de-Calais region of France. When he was a child, he...
Thoma, Johann
(1875 – 1948), Switzerland
We know virtually nothing regarding the life of Johann Thoma (1875–1948) except that he was Swiss and lived in Zurich. The predominant...
Torre, Giuseppe
(?), Italy
We have no information whatsoever on this creator, lest it be that he lived near the city of Terracina, in the Latium (Central Western Italy).
Tourlonias, Jean
(1937-2000), France
Jean Tourlonias (1937–2000) was born into a peasant family in Cébazat, a little village near Clermont-Ferrand, in France. After a...
Trovic, Jacques
(1948 - 2018), France
Jacques Trovic was born at Anzin, in the mining suburb of Valenciennes, northern France. As a result of illness, he had to leave school at the age...
Verbena, Pascal
(1941), France
Pascal Verbena (1941) was born in Marseille (France). He grew up in the Old Port district, where his parents worked as wholesale fish merchants....