Friedrich Schröder-Sonnenstern (German, 1892–1982)

Timeline

1892: Born near Tilsit, Russia
1906–1912: Reformatory, breaking off an apprenticeship as gardener, vagabonding, circus and stable boy
1912–1919: Several detentions in a mental institution, incapacitation due to mental illness
1919: Escape to Berlin, Germany
1919–1933: Formation of a sect, calls himself „Geheimrat Professor Dr. phil Eliot Gnass von Sonnenstern“; „Psycho-Graphologe“, Astrologer, „magnetopathischer Heiler“, and itinerant preacher
1933: Arrest because of charlatanism and fortune-telling, hospitalisation in a mental institution in Neustadt/Holstein, Germany
1933–1934: First drawings in the mental institution
1973: Erik-Erikson-Medaille
1982: Died in Berlin

2008: 35 Jahre, Galerie Hell, Munich, Germany
1973: Retrospektive, Kestner-Gesellschaft Hannover, Hanover, Germany (solo)
1973: Retrospektive, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin (solo)
1971: Galerie Bühler, Stuttgart, Germany
1970: Galerie d’Halluin, Dusseldorf, Germany
1968: Phantastische Kunst in Deutschland, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany
1967: Retrospektive, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)
1966: Galerie Hartmann, Munich, Germany
1964: Aoki Gallery, Tokio, Japan
1964: Galerie Sydow, Frankfort, Germany
1963: Galerie Brockstedt, Hamburg, Germany
1960: Bar Jack Bilbo, Berlin
1959: Art Brut, Galerie Les Mages, Vence, France
1959: Exposition Internationale du Surrealisme, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
1952: Galerie Springer, Berlin

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