Aloïse Corbaz [SEP] date of death
Aloïse Corbaz
Aloïse Corbaz (28 June 1886 – 5 April 1964) was a Swiss outsider artist included in Jean Dubuffet's initial collection of psychiatric art. She is one of very few acclaimed female outsider artists.
Life.
Aloïse Corbaz was born in Lausanne, Switzerland in 1886. She earned her baccalauréat in 1906. Although she dreamt of becoming a singer, Aloïse worked as a dressmaker until leaving for Germany in 1911. She eventually found work as a teacher and a governess, in Potsdam, at the court
Aloïse (film)
Aloïse is a 1975 French drama film directed by Liliane de Kermadec. It was entered into the 1975 Cannes Film Festival.
Plot.
The unsuccessful Swiss artist Aloïse Corbaz finds work at the court of the German emperor and gets infatuated. Showing frank symptoms of insanity she is hospitalised.
Cast.
- Isabelle Huppert - Aloïse jeune / Aloïse as a child
- Delphine Seyrig - Aloïse adulte / Aloïse as an adult
- Marc Eyraud - Le père d'Aloïse / Aloïse's father