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June 23, 2006
The Art Of Franz Xavier Messerschmidt
Was Messerschmidt insane? This question has aroused controversy between the psychologists and the historians. The psychoanalyst Ernst Kris, who wrote two studies of Messerschmidt, the earlier of which, published in 1932, is still the most detailed account of the sculptor’s work, diagnosed his case as a “psychosis with predominant paranoid trends, which fits the general picture of schizophrenia.”
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Posted on June 23, 2006 01:43 PM by schizo284.
Filed in Mental Health Update under schizophrenia.
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Give me a break! I do sculptures that are very similar in facial gesture. Does that mean I'm a schizophrenic?
Posted by: CBM at May 9, 2009 11:42 AM
