Word: sonnenstern
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Dates: during 1992-1992
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...entitle him to be seen as perhaps the greatest psychotic artist whose work has come down to us. And some are known only to specialists. Among these are Heinrich Hermann Mebes (1842-?), whose tiny visionary-symbolist watercolors fall somewhere between Philipp Otto Runge and Persian miniatures; and Friedrich Schroder-Sonnenstern (1892-1982), with his fearsome moralizing fantasies; and the mental patient Karl Brendel (1871-1925), whose tiny, intense woodcarvings are so close in spirit to German Expressionist sculpture...
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