ANTONIO LIGABUE

Homeless, without connections, and without a sense of direction, he lived in the woods in a hut or a barn - wherever he could find s helter. Ligabue's entire work is full of memories and reminiscences of his life in Switzerland, of his home. He taught himself to dr aw animals as a child, as evidenced by documents from the institution for feeble-minded children in Marbach and the St. Pirminsberg mental hospital in Pfäfers, in the canton of St. Gallen. In Italy he was driven by his will to be an artist. Scorned and humiliated, he lived...[Read more]