003 - Adolf Wolfli - Part 2

Outsider Art Podcast

English - September 10, 2020 00:01 - 22 minutes - 20.5 MB - ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
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In 1916 as part of the second of his narrative works, the Geographic and Algebraic Books, Wolfli assigned himself a new name (which required some explanation),

“St. Adolf the I, Great-King of Grenoble-St. Adolf King, Giant-City in Savojen; last named with an additional calculation-supplement of 50 hours is my third-youngest brother as a Great-God! And I am St. Adolf II, Couscous King and King Great-God. Bern, Friday, the 23rd June 1916”

After 16 years of concentrated work he must have felt he had earned this enriched sobriquet...

Adolf Wolfli on WikiArt - link

Cover Art - Adolf Wolfli - The Amazons (detail) (1919)

Reading List

Adolf Wolfli. Draftsman, Writer, Poet, Composer - Editor Elka Spoerri - ISBN 0-8014-3403-3

Adolf Wolfli. Creator of the Universe - ISBN 978-80-87164-95-2

The Art of Adolf Wolfli. St. Adolf-Giant-Creation - ISBN 0-691-11498-6

Outsider Art. Visionary Worlds and Trauma - Daniel Wojcik - ISBN 9781496808066

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