EUGENE VON BRUENCHENHEIN MYTHOLOGIES

Von Bruenchenheins large and unusual body of work was unknown to anyone except his closest family and friends until after his death / he is now deservedly considered, according to Roberta Smith, among the great American outsider artists. Von Bruenchenheins firs t creative venture was to photograph his wife, Marie. In the 1950s, he began painting surreal subjects, ranging from atomic mushroom s to mythical creatures and futuristic metropolises. After his death, the John Michael Kohler Arts Center began cataloguing and phot ographing hi...[Read more]