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Eugen Gabritschevsky was born in Moscow, Russia. The son of a renowned bacteriologist, he studied biology and specialised in genetics. He was later invited to continue his research at Columbia University, New York, before working at the Pasteur Institute in Paris in 1926. But he was subject to mental disorders and was admitted, in 1931, to a psychiatric hospital where he remained until his death.
For more than 40 years Eugen Gabritschevsky devoted himself to artistic creation, producing some 5,000 paintings and drawings. He worked on sheets of paper that he retrieved from the rubbish, as well as on calendar pages and administrative memos. He employed a number of random techniques. For example, he would apply watercolour or gouache with a brush or his fingers, then dab it with a rag or sponge, making suggestive shapes appear. He would then develop these emergent forms with a few brushstrokes, giving birth to monstrous anthropomorphic figures and strange animals.
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Eugen Gabritschevsky 1893-1979 (in french)
Eugen Gabritschevsky 1893-1979, under the direction of Antoine de Galbert, Noëlig Le Roux, Sarah Lombardi, Valérie Rousseau, Paris, Lausanne, New York : Snoeck, La maison rouge, Collection de l’Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum, 2016, 191 pages.
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Eugen Gabritschevsky 1893-1979 (in english)
Eugen Gabritschevsky 1893-1979, under the direction of Antoine de Galbert, Noëlig Le Roux, Sarah Lombardi, Valérie Rousseau, Paris, Lausanne, New York : Snoeck, La maison rouge, Collection de l’Art Brut, American Folk Art Museum, 2016, 191 pages.
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The Art Brut Fascicle N°16
The Art Brut Fascicle N°16, 18 x 24 cm, 150 ill. black/white or color, about 160 pp. Since 1964 to 2018. In French. One fascicle CHF 30.-
Price Complete collection, 25 fascicles (N°2 - N°26) : CHF 720.-
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Théâtres (french version )
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Théâtres, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
Theatre (englixh version)
Pascale Jeanneret, Sarah Lombardi and Eric Vautrin, Theatre, Lausanne/ Milan, Collection de l’Art Brut/ 5 Continents Editions, 2019, « Art Brut, la collection », under the direction of Sarah Lombardi, 144 pages, more than 100 colour plates, french or english version.
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The museum constantly displays part of its collection, including works by major creators such as Aloïse Corbaz, Augustin Lesage, Marguerite Sirvins, and Auguste Walla. The Art Brut pieces are created by self-taught artists—solitary individuals living on the margins of society, patients of psychiatric hospitals—who produce work apart from tradition and artistic trends, without concern for public criticism or the gaze of others.
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