As a mulitple outsider, Wölfli used the world as a quarry for constructing a complex mental edifice complete unto itself. The “Saint Adolf-Giant-Creation” was both a kind of wish-fulfillment machine and the result of his obstinate reception and reproduction of turn-of-the-century ideas, values and fantasies. Wölfli created a body of work that was part of its age in terms of content, yet clearly alien to that age’s conventions.
Adolf Wölfli Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Bern, Switzerland
