Galerie
PGE-CHUV, Psychiatrie générale, Site de Cery, Lausanne
Cery Collection, Archives Cantonales Vaudoises (ACV)
The Asile psychiatrique de Cery was built in 1873. Beginning in 1877, the annual reports began to mention that many tasks undertaken by patients outdoors, in the household, or in workshops. There was a metalworking shop, a carpentry workshop, a bookbinder’s workshop, and weaving and embroidery took place. In 1880, there were 330 patients. By 1905, this number had risen 556 and new buildings were required; in addition, there were attempts at family care. The Asile de la Rosière in Gimel, located in a former lakeside hotel that the canton purchased, was opened in 1920. Hans Steck (1891–1980) was director of this ward from 1936–1960. In a “small museum,” he collected the artistic work and writing of patients. In 1948, he met Jean Dubuffet, and gave him a number of works for his Collection de l’Art Brut. He worked together with the psychiatrist Jacqueline Porret-Forel, who wrote her doctorate on Aloïse Corbaz in 1953, and the psychiatrist Alfred Bader, who directed Centre d’études de l’expression plastique de la Clinique psychiatrique universitaire de Lausanne from 1963–1981. The Sammlung Hans Steck contains drawings and texts by sixteen men and three women (one group of works is anonymous). Hans Steck gave works by twelve artists to the Collection de l’Art Brut, including Aloïse Corbaz (1886–1964), Jean Radovic (1913–?), Jules Doudin (1884–1946) and Eugénie Nogarède (1882–1951). (FCH)
Catalogue raisonné
Aloïse Corbaz (1886-1964), digital catalogue Jacqueline Porret-Forel, Research Project supported by Schweizerisches Institut für Kunstwissenschaft (SIK-ISEA, Aloise online) 2012
References
Bader, Alfred, Steck, Hans, Petits maîtres de la folie, Genève 1961
Choquard, Florence, Le regard d’un psychiatre sur les écrits de la folie. La carrière de Hans Steck à l’Asile de Cery (1920-1960), UNIL/EHESS ; thèse 2012
Fussinger, Catherine, Tevaearai, Deodaat, Lieux de folie. Monuments de raison, Architecture et psychiatrie en Suisse romande 1830–1930. Lausanne 1998
Luchsinger, Katrin, Hirsch, Helen, Röske Thomas (Hrsg.), Extraordinaire! Unbekannte Werke aus psychiatrischen Einrichtungen in der Schweiz um 1900 / Extraordinairy! Unknown works from Swiss Psychiatric Institutions around 1900, Zürich 2018
Porret-Forel, Jacqueline, Aloyse, Publication de la Compagnie de l’Art Brut, Paris, 1966
dies., Aloïse et le théâtre de l’univers, Genève, Skira, 1993
Catalogue, Musée cantonal des beaux-arts Lausanne, Aloïse – le ricochet solaire, 2012
Steck, Hans, La mentalité primitive chez les schizophrènes. In: Bader, Alfred (red. Cocteau, Jean (ed.), Petits maîtres de la folie, Lausanne 1961
ders.: Aloïse, Psychopathologie de l’expression, Basel 1975
Fussinger, Catherine, Tevaearai, Deodaat, Lieux de folie. Monuments de raison, Architecture et psychiatrie en Suisse romande 1830–1930. Lausanne 1998
Peiry, Lucienne, L’art brut, Paris 1997