Karl Brendel, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Karl Brendel

German artist

Date of Birth: 21-Mar-1871

Place of Birth: Mühlhausen, Thuringia, Germany

Date of Death: 21-Aug-1925

Profession: sculptor

Nationality: Germany

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Karl Brendel is the pseudonym of Karl Genzel (21 March 1871 – 21 August 1925), a schizophrenic outsider artist and one of the "schizophrenic masters" profiled by Hans Prinzhorn in his field-defining work Artistry of the Mentally Ill (1923, in German; English edition 1972).
He was the only sculptor profiled in Prinzhorn's work, and the work also includes more illustrations of his work (twenty-four sculptures and eight drawings) than that of any other profiled artist.