Aloïse Corbaz

Aloïse Corbaz (known as Aloïse) is a creative of rough art Suisse, born with Lausanne the June 28th 1886 and died in Gimel-on-Morges, the April 5th 1964.

Biography

Small, its dream is to become Cantatrice. She loses her mother at 11 years. After the secondary school, it follows the courses of the vocational school of seam of Lausanne. As of 1911, it is sent in Germany as teacher deprived at a noble family in Leipzig, then with Potsdam, in the chaplain of the Empereur Guillaume II. She falls in love with the emperor then as letters of this period attest it. The First World War obliges it to turn over in its family to Switzerland. In 1918, she is hospitalized for mental disorders (Schizophrénie) with the asylum of Cery. Since 1920, it is definitively interned with the asylum of Rosière. She starts to write and draw at that time. Initially destroyed, its works will be preserved thanks to the interest that will carry the director of the hospital, Hans Steck, and Jacqueline Porret-Forel to them, as of 1936.

The principal support of its works consists of packing papers which it sews together to obtain from the sheets of large size. She draws on the two faces of these supports with pencils and chalks fatty by using all space. The topics which one regularly finds in his work are the couple in love, the Théâtre and the opera. She puts in scene historical characters or of fiction.

Part of its work is today preserved at the Collection of Rough Art with Lausanne and at the Kunstmuseum (Museum of Beautiful arts) of Soleure.

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