Demlczuk, Barbara

Áustria, (unknown dates)

Date of birth and whereabouts unknown, Austria. Barbara Demlczuk’s stay at the Lower Austrian State Hospital for Psychiatry and Neurology in Klosterneuburg, i.e. in the psychiatric clinic in Gugging, in the 1970s is the only verifiable fact from her life. The psychiatrist Leo Navratil showed her drawings as part of a group exhibition “Psychopathological Pictures” (‘Psychopathologische Bilder’) at Galerie Seebacher in Nüziders near Bludenz in Vorarlberg from 31 January to 24 March 1973.

Source: Living in Art Brut

© Courtesy museum gugging