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Aloïse Corbaz

Abstract from source: www.artbrut.ch/en/21004/1000/aloise



(1886-1964), Born in  Switzerland

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Biography


Aloïse Corbaz was born in Lausanne, Switzerland. With a high school diploma

in hand, she worked as a dressmaker

but dreamed of becoming an opera singer. Later, she occupied a post as a governess

in Potsdam at the court of Wilhelm II. She

fell in love with the emperor and experienced a passion that was entirely imaginary.

The declaration of war forced her to

come back in Switzerland. 



She manifested then exalted religious feelings of such intensity that she was put in the asylum at Cery-sur-Lausanne in 1918,

then in the hospital of La Rosière,

Gimel-sur-Morges.



Until 1936 she worked in secret, using graphite and ink. She would also use

the juice from petals, crushed leaves

and toothpaste. The support material for

her expression was wrapping paper sewn

with thread or alternatively envelopes, bits

of cardboard or the backs of calendars.

Aloïse was the author of a personal

cosmogony inhabited by princely figures and by historical heroines. The theme of a pair

of lovers, as well as her passion for theater and opera, predominates in her her work.

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