adolf wolfli
A new exhibit of Adolf Wolfli's art combines his "bread art" with the work he created for his own pleasure.Morgenthaler supplied his patient with colored pencils, quizzed him about his life and his drawings and made sure his work was preserved.
The doctor's attentions had a profound effect. Wölfli's pictures blossomed into color and he embarked on a multivolume autobiography chronicling in story, poetry, song and endless columns of numbers his fantastical adventures and his apotheosis into an all-encompassing god (the "St. Adolf-Giant-Creation" of the show's title). His project eventually yielded more than 45 large volumes of newsprint sheets and scrap paper that Wölfli illustrated with his own drawings and with pictures cut out of magazines and then stitched together.