The Disordered Mind by Eric R. Kandel

Author:Eric R. Kandel
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Figure 6.5. Peter Moog, Altar with Priest and Madonna

Orth was born in 1853 to an ancient, noble family. He developed normally as a child and later became a naval cadet, but he began to be plagued with paranoia when he was twenty-five years old and was hospitalized from 1883 until his death in 1919. At various times he believed himself to be the King of Saxony, the King of Poland, and the Duke of Luxembourg. In 1900 he began to paint. As Prinzhorn said of Orth’s paintings, in his eagerness “no empty surface is safe.” He covered every inch of the page, much as Moog did, but unlike Moog he did not create intricately detailed drawings. Many of Orth’s paintings were seascapes and featured a three-masted ship that Prinzhorn believed was his training ship. In figure 6.6 we see an abstract version of a three-masted ship on the sea. The colorful diagonal areas “together give the effect of a mild sunset at sea,” wrote Prinzhorn.18

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