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'''Agnes Richter''' (1844-1918) was a German-born seamstress. In 1893, Richter was admitted to a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital on the behalf of her father and brothers following several acute delusional episodes. <ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Agnes_s_Jacket.html?id=R1MkuuUTqFAC|title=Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness|last=Hornstein|first=Gail A.|publisher=Rodale Press, Incorporated|year=|isbn=9781605296715|location=|pages=x, 583-7|language=en}}</ref> Richter's legacy has survived primarily because of its entanglement with a small, personal jacket that she sewed during her lengthy institutionalization. Pieced together from brown wool and course institutional linen, the jacket is covered in messily embroider ''deutsche schrift'', a script which has largely fallen out of use. The lines of red, yellow, blue, orange, and white threaded text are difficult to read, overlapping and obscured through continual use. Fragments of text from Richters Jacket have been deciphered though their significance and meaning remains unclear (e.g., ''I am not big, I wish to read, I plunge headlong into disaster''). Her case number, 583m appears repeatedly, suggesting that the jacket may represent an biographical object.<ref name=":0" /> |
'''Agnes Richter''' (1844-1918) was a German-born seamstress. In 1893, Richter was admitted to a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital on the behalf of her father and brothers following several acute delusional episodes. <ref name=":0">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books/about/Agnes_s_Jacket.html?id=R1MkuuUTqFAC|title=Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness|last=Hornstein|first=Gail A.|publisher=Rodale Press, Incorporated|year=|isbn=9781605296715|location=|pages=x, 583-7|language=en}}</ref> Richter's legacy has survived primarily because of its entanglement with a small, personal jacket that she sewed during her lengthy institutionalization. Pieced together from brown wool and course institutional linen, the jacket is covered in messily embroider ''deutsche schrift'', a script which has largely fallen out of use. The lines of red, yellow, blue, orange, and white threaded text are difficult to read, overlapping and obscured through continual use. Fragments of text from Richters Jacket have been deciphered though their significance and meaning remains unclear (e.g., ''I am not big, I wish to read, I plunge headlong into disaster''). Her case number, 583m appears repeatedly, suggesting that the jacket may represent an biographical object.<ref name=":0" /> |
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Agnes Richter (1844-1918) was a German-born seamstress. In 1893, Richter was admitted to a Heidelberg psychiatric hospital on the behalf of her father and brothers following several acute delusional episodes. [1] Richter's legacy has survived primarily because of its entanglement with a small, personal jacket that she sewed during her lengthy institutionalization. Pieced together from brown wool and course institutional linen, the jacket is covered in messily embroider deutsche schrift, a script which has largely fallen out of use. The lines of red, yellow, blue, orange, and white threaded text are difficult to read, overlapping and obscured through continual use. Fragments of text from Richters Jacket have been deciphered though their significance and meaning remains unclear (e.g., I am not big, I wish to read, I plunge headlong into disaster). Her case number, 583m appears repeatedly, suggesting that the jacket may represent an biographical object.[1]
Life in German asylums at the fin-de-siecle was highly regimented. While male patients worked in the grounds or in workshops to manufacture shoes, furniture, female patients were expected to clean, sew, knit, and launder institutional uniforms and textiles.[2] Embracing these technologies in a manner , Richter assembled both a and a in the jacket. It bears the marks of its use, including sweat stains and a darted back that may have to accommodate a physical deformity hunch back. [3]
The Jacket was collected by Hans Prinzhornn in the early 20th century. [4] Since its rediscovery amidst the collections in 1980, the jacket has become an iconic piece in the Prinzhorn Collection at Heidelberg. Similar examples of asylum artistry from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries include Myrellen’s Coat. [5]
References
- ^ a b Hornstein, Gail A. Agnes's Jacket: A Psychologist's Search for the Meanings of Madness. Rodale Press, Incorporated. pp. x, 583–7. ISBN 9781605296715.
- ^ Scull, Andrew (2015-04-06). Madness in Civilization: A Cultural History of Insanity, from the Bible to Freud, from the Madhouse to Modern Medicine. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691166155.
- ^ Röske, T (2014). "Agnes Richter's jacket". Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences: 227–9.
- ^ Prinzhorn-Sammlung, D (1980). Bilder, Skulpturen, Texte aus Psychiatrischen Anstalten (ca. 1890–1920). Königstein: Heidelberger Kunstverein etc. Athenäum.
- ^ Heard, Catherine (2009-07-13). "Myrllen's Coat". The Brock Review. 10 (2): 38–60. ISSN 1188-9071.
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