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Josef Forster<br />
*Stadtamhof 1878–after 1941<br />
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Josef Forster was the tenth of a total of 13 children. His father was a master<br />
brewer, mentally ill and committed suicide at 54; his father’s brother also<br />
suffered from mental illness.<br />
Josef Forster was not known as a talented student; he began suffering<br />
hallucinations and visions at the age of seven or eight (“man with staring eyes on<br />
the bed”).<br />
Beginning in 1896, Forster began to suffer from acute hallucinations and heard<br />
the “praying of people in outer space”. He began an apprenticeship as a decorator<br />
and then began travelling.<br />
He came down with tuberculosis in 1898 and displayed what were probably the<br />
first signs of "mental illness" while in quarantine. Forster began to paint during<br />
this time and copied the works of master artists in German and Austrian<br />
museums.<br />
Financial necessity drove Forster back to business and he soon opened his own<br />
establishment.<br />
His psychological condition worsened, beginning in 1916. While fully conscious,<br />
he saw figures under his bed and saw fire coming out of his eyes in the mirror.<br />
In the Regensburg Clinic, Forster painted portraits of persons, as well as<br />
landscapes and symbolic images. He created a kind of “perpetual motion” and<br />
devised all sorts of “inventions”.<br />
The fate of Josef Forster after 1941 is unknown...<br />
Paul Kunze<br />
*Roßwein 1860, Accounted for ca. 1913 in the State Clinic of<br />
Hubertusburg, near Wermsdorf, Kingdom of Saxony<br />
Profession: Confectioner<br />
no image or biography available<br />
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