Relationships. Art-affined physicians, gifted artist patients and the debate on art from a psychiatric context after 1945

BACKGROUND: In 1945 the artist and art collector J. Dubuffet coined the term Art brut for original works by psychiatric inmates that had been created outside of traditions and art movements. In the following decades these works were at the center of negotiation processes in which not only psychiatrists but also exhibition organizers, gallery owners etc. increasingly became …