• The Prinzhorn Collection is a German collection of art made by mental health patients, housed at the Heidelberg University Hospital.
  • In 1922, Prinzhorn published his richly-illustrated book “Artistry of the Mentally Ill” based on the collection.
  • The Prinzhorn Collection preserves a unique collection of works created by patients of psychiatric institutions at the turn of the 20th century.
  • The Prinzhorn Collection museum is dedicated to art created by men and women with mental disorders.
  • While working in Heidelberg at the psychiatric hospital, Hans Prinzhorn grew an existing collection of patients’ artwork.
  • The structural extension of the Prinzhorn Collection offers the chance for the museum to develop into a centre for "Outsider Art".
  • Under Prinzhorn’s direction the collection of artworks from sufferers of everything from schizophrenia to depression grew to over 5...
  • With an annual turnover of 2,2 billion Euro, the Prinzhorn Group ranks third in this market segment in Europe and continues creating value for all its stakeholders.
  • An art exhibit in 1937, titled Entartete Kunst (Degenerate Art) exhibited a few works from the Prinzhorn collection along with some other works of modern art.
  • The Prinzhorn Collection had a particular influence on the theorization and practice of automatic writing and drawing undertaken by the Surrealists.
  • Four years after Prinzhorn’s death in 1933, items from the collection were placed alongside works of celebrated modern artists in the notorious Degenerate...
  • The collection takes its name from the psychiatrist and art historian Hans Prinzhorn (1886-1933) who, in the early twenties, had the idea of collecting...
  • The "Friends of the Prinzhorn Collection" e.V. have supported the Heidelberg Collection Prinzhorn since 1995, a collection of art from a psychiatric context that is...