Saint Adolf = Throne, = Alpa = Roosali
1917
Swiss artist Adolf Wölfli created this vibrant, fantastical scene while living as a patient in a psychiatric hospital, eventually becoming a pioneer of 'Art Brut' or outsider art. The central figure, likely a self-portrait of the artist as a saintly king, sits regally beneath a towering red-and-white headdress, flanked by two giant, stylized birds in bright yellow and green. Wölfli filled thousands of pages with similar dense, colorful drawings to build an elaborate fictional autobiography, transforming his isolation into a sprawling, imaginative universe.
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