Home Outside and Inside – Artistic Self-positioning of Psychiatric Patients around 1900 (C06)

• Subject Area: Art History
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 517096657

The subproject examines art by people who lived in psychiatric institutions in German-speaking countries between 1840 and 1945 and whose works are preserved in the Prinzhorn Collection in Heidelberg, as well as psychiatric history documents on the respective institutions under the perspective of home(s). The phenomenon of institutional psychiatry is given a new perspective from its emotional side, and conclusions can also be drawn about ideas of home and belonging in mainstream society, as the excluded people drew on this matrix and often allowed its elements to emerge particularly clearly in their works.

• DFG Programme: Collaborative Research Centres
• Subproject of: SFB 1671: Home(s): Phenomena, Practices, Representations
• Applicant Institution: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg
• Project Heads: Professorin Dr. Maike Rotzoll; Privatdozent Dr. Thomas Röske