Johann Hauser
1926 – 1996
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Image: Johann Hauser, portrait from Art/Brut Center, Gugging.
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Johann Hauser, a founder member of the Haus der Künstler in Gugging, Austria, became one of its most successful artists. He began to draw in the 1950s in response to encouragement from his psychiatrist, Dr Leo Navratil, and developed his characteristic style. His powerful use of form and colour belie the fact that his favoured medium was coloured pencil. Drawing with a fierce intensity, he created an overall painterly effect. The intense pressure he
applied left indents in the paper and occasionally tore it, but at other times his work was quiet and restrained, featuring just one object or form.
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