The Other Side of the Moon: The World of Adolf Wölfli
Exhibition Catalog
Goldie Paley Gallery
Moore College of Art & Design
Philadelphia, 1988
Born in Bowil, canton Bern, Switzerland, in 1864, Adolf Wölfli did not begin his remarkable artistic production until 1899, four years after he was committed to Waldau mental asylum. There, he began to spin his highly individual web of fantasy, producing twenty-five thousand pages of prose and drawings before his death, in 1930.
Goldie Paley Gallery
Moore College of Art & Design
Philadelphia, 1988
Born in Bowil, canton Bern, Switzerland, in 1864, Adolf Wölfli did not begin his remarkable artistic production until 1899, four years after he was committed to Waldau mental asylum. There, he began to spin his highly individual web of fantasy, producing twenty-five thousand pages of prose and drawings before his death, in 1930.